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 ...

A Castor container is positioned at Woerth railroad station. The nuclear waste inside consists of reprocessed fuel elements from German nuclear power plants, processed in England. According to the ...

Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

That increase in nuclear energy also means an increase in nuclear waste, so scientists are searching for ways to use the latent energy in nuclear waste for energy-production purposes. A new study ...

The lawsuit underscored a touchy subject — plans to store nuclear waste deep under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the only permanent storage site in the United States allowed by federal law ...

Nuclear power comes with almost zero greenhouse gas emissions, but has its own issues in the form of radioactive waste. A new study proposes one way to repurpose this waste: powering batteries for ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Nuclear power provides roughly 10% of the world’s energy. Yet one of its biggest ...

A ship carrying castor seven containers filled with highly radioactive nuclear waste docked in the northern German port of Nordenham, Lower Saxony, on Tuesday morning, amid protests and a heightened ...

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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 ...

A Go-Co model was also used to manage nuclear waste liabilities in the United Kingdom, until it was cancelled after a scandal and a parliamentary inquiry. What has been accomplished in that decade ...