The North Dakota Legislature is opening the door for nuclear energy research in the state. The House of Representatives on ...

The global nuclear energy sector is experiencing a renaissance with increased interest and expansion plans, but faces the ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

A series of massive underground tunnels for nuclear waste are under construction across Europe and the UK, but how we will warn future generations of their dangers is still up in the air.

A council has officially withdrawn from talks to bury nuclear waste in the Lincolnshire countryside. Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), a government body, had earmarked an area near Louth, in East ...

The hazardous byproduct isn't a green ooze held in drums. Rather, nuclear waste is in the form of ceramic pellets that are dangerous to humans. The plants — which create enough energy to power 70 ...

Innovations in reactor technology also address long-standing concerns about safety and waste management. By making nuclear ...

[50] In addition, the problem of finding new storage sites for high-level radioactive waste from spent nuclear fuel further tarnishes nuclear power's "green" image and is likely to be a pressing ...

Nuclear waste, which can remain radioactive and, therefore, highly dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years, is currently stored in 16 temporary locations above ground, but it can't stay there ...

Texas will determine ... More how nuclear waste is treated as nuclear energy demand spikes. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Created during an era of ...

Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities can take decades ... Ask NYT Climate: Are those green dog poop bags that claim to be compostable really better for the environment?

Each flask has an 8ft (2.5m) diameter and carries spent nuclear fuel. Seven shipping cylinders of nuclear waste are due to be shipped to Europe, as part of a project to send back spent fuel to the ...