As Wyoming communities recoil from nuclear waste, the Idaho National Lab continues to embrace waste as an untapped resource. Energy Sec. Chris Wright, ...

Nuclear power “could arguably increase proliferation risk by at least a little,” Touran said. But he doesn’t think it’s a huge issue, “because if you really want nuclear weapons, it’s a lot easier to ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons ...

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

Japan is considering the town of Suttsu for a nuclear waste storage site. Residents are divided over the $19.4 million ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

Nuclear is the most powerful and efficient energy source we’ve ever harnessed. It’s also the only energy source that keeps all of its waste out of the ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

Activists from several nuclear-free watchdog groups are claiming that the nuclear industry will omit nuclear waste ...

Whether a nuclear renaissance actually occurs in the coming decade or two depends on three fundamental questions: Are the new designs safer than their predecessors? Do the new designs lead to changes ...