After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

A discussion that could drastically change Northwest Colorado’s economic and environmental future accelerated on Tuesday ...

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

The prospect of loads of spent nuclear-fuel rods being hauled by transport trucks or rail cars through rural Northwestern ...

Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The ...

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 ...

Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

Senate Majority Leader David Hogue said the state should at least begin to explore the potential for nuclear and that waste ...

The oral arguments before the Supreme Court earlier this month is a reminder that our nation has a 66-year-old nuclear energy ...

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

Tons of radioactive refuse go into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor ...