Though newly popular, the nuclear program in the US is nothing new. The US hosts more reactors and production capacity than ...
Scientists are testing giant accelerators to "burn" nuclear waste, shrinking its hazard time from 100,000 to 300 years while ...
LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear energy is at least a decade away from coming to North Dakota, but the lawmakers studying its feasibility are already ...
A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...
Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...
Cleanup, safety and storage questions persist as the industry sets its sights on the Equality State, writes guest columnist ...
Finland's Posiva is on the verge of receiving an operating license for the world's first permanent nuclear waste disposal facility, built 400 meters underground in 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock at a ...
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.
Germany is developing robotic arms and tele-operated systems to retrieve nuclear waste from the unstable Asse II salt mine.
Wyoming is set to become a hub for nuclear energy and waste storage as TerraPower builds its first advanced Natrium power ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houses stand in the marsh in front of Seabrook Station nuclear power plant. (Photo by Molly Rains/New Hampshire Bulletin) In New ...