Finland is weeks from licensing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's what it means for the global ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The EPA has approved more nuclear waste storage at the New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) ...

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

A few brows furrowed when Southern California Edison announced that a scratch on a nuclear waste canister at San Onofre was re-assessed — and is actually less than half as deep as originally estimated ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.

For decades, nuclear energy has been regarded as the black sheep of the energy universe, thanks to drawbacks such as high costs, risk of thermal runaway leading to catastrophic accidents as well as ...

Top officials in one of the nation’s most energy-prolific counties — home to uranium mining, oil, natural gas and the most productive coal-mining district in North America — are cautiously supportive ...

Japan has raised global concern, after reportedly taking initial steps to explore a tiny ...

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has invited the municipalities to express an interest in taking part in the process of finding a suitable location for storage facilities for radioactive waste. An ...