but they produce a significantly higher volume of nuclear waste. Despite concerns about nuclear waste, the development and deployment of microreactors continue to gain momentum, driven in part by ...

However, one major obstacle shadows its potential: the management of radioactive waste. With the growing number of nuclear reactors globally, the accumulation of this hazardous byproduct poses a ...

This time its storage for nuclear waste from its own nuclear industry—storage that is supposed to last 100,000 years. Nuclear power currently provides 40 percent of Sweden's electricity from six ...

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is leading a bipartisan amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to validate a lower court ruling preventing nuclear waste from being deposited in his state.

Given the dark clouds still lingering over nuclear power, especially its unresolved waste problem, these renewable alternatives deserve renewed consideration. This is an opinion and analysis ...

Legal enablers aren’t the real challenge, though. Regulation and nuclear waste are. Nuclear energy is back in vogue globally, especially to satisfy the swelling appetite of artificial ...

Jack Spencer, in his new book, Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next Generation (Optimum Publishing International, 2024), argues that nuclear energy offers real answers to power our homes and ...

Currently, Japan's nuclear waste is stored at power plants operated ... criticism that the fuel recycling project is making no real progress. With nowhere to go, a growing amount of spent fuel ...

Turns out that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ... U.S. Department of Energy And, of course, the waste canisters inside the overpacks will not contain real spent fuel — but they’ll replicate ...

The Kishida administration has unveiled a policy initiative to deal with high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants through “united government-wide” efforts. The government plans ...