The idea of storing the nation’s highly radioactive nuclear waste in Wyoming may sound like an opportunity for jobs or revenue ... They’ve missed deadlines, shifted their strategies, ignored state ...

Microreactors, a new form of nuclear technology, are being touted for their lower costs and smaller size, but they produce a significantly higher volume of nuclear waste. Despite concerns about ...

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 ...

So it’s contained in a park that looks like a concrete industrial park ... Roberts supports initial efforts to discuss the idea of northwest Colorado hosting nuclear waste. “I appreciate and ...

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 ...

"They said it wouldn't work, but it does." Sweden’s nuclear waste facility is only the second ... for the final disposal of spent fuel was like the missing part of the sustainable lifecycle ...

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 ...

A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology ... the researchers used optical and electrical components to look at light between infrared and microwave ...

A recent New York Times article featured Bill Gates standing on the site of a future nuclear reactor in Wyoming, holding a shovel and trying his best to look like he’d ever used one before.

“It’s nothing like ... the small nuclear reactors. “Apart from the danger of nuclear waste, defining nuclear as clean is a dangerous barrier to achieving our climate goals and does not ...

Reader Susanne Kjemtrup-Lovelace wondered how the waste produced by these small reactors will be managed. Nuclear waste disposal is still a thorny issue. For now, spent nuclear fuel is mostly ...