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 ...

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 ...

The idea of storing the nation’s highly radioactive nuclear waste in Wyoming may sound like an opportunity for jobs or revenue, but don’t be fooled. History and recent experience — especially from ...

Highly radioactive waste is piling up at nuclear power plants around the United States. And the nation has been trying, and failing, since the early 1980s to find a safer place to store this fuel once ...

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 ...

Sweden has commenced construction of a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. Currently, there are thousands of metric tons ...

Sweden recently began constructing a final storage facility for its spent nuclear fuel. The facility will safely store highly radioactive waste for an extended period, specifically 100,000 years.

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has officially given the Chornobyl plant the green light to start operating facilities that will process and store the radioactive waste ...

Mr Mullighan says those topics were not the "focus" of the discussions. Legislation passed last year allowing nuclear waste to be stored at Osborne, but the government says a location for any high ...

The SFR facility near the Forsmark nuclear power plant. Blue areas show the planned bedrock extension beneath the sea (Photo credit: SKB) Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk ...

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The “MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste” project will ...