The storage of nuclear waste has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in.

Doing so would allow the storage site to proceed. Or the court could delve into the difficult debate over how to handle nuclear waste in the United States. Since the U.S. began large-scale nuclear ...

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 ...

are seeking to block Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval of a private nuclear waste storage facility in the Permian Basin, an area rich with oil deposits and limited sources of safe drinking ...

The North Dakota Senate passed a bill that would allow The North Dakota State Energy Research Center to pursue projects that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the states of ...

Eversource says costs at the plants do not affect its current electric rates, and ratepayers haven’t been paying for expenses ...

Gwyneth Paltrow spoke to Vanity Fair as part of a new cover story and pulled back the curtain a bit on her big return to ...

The team tested the battery prototype with cesium-137 and cobalt-60, common radioactive byproducts of nuclear reactors. Using ...

Researchers may have found a way to create a nuclear waste battery that could theoretically run for decades without needing to recharge.