The Department of Energy says it can reduce risk to the environment by speeding up the treatment of 56 million gallons of ...

Radioactive waste and contamination, like that created during the Manhattan Project’s launch of the world’s first nuclear ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

If you want to hide something, there are few places more suitable than a fjord deep in the Arctic. Even more so if that ...

The debate is between those who see a path to making nuclear waste clean again and those who advocate a more cautious approach. An ancient Greek saying warns us that “there is no such thing as a free ...

The first dismantling of a commercial reactor in Japan has started, ushering in a new period of decommissioning but with the ...

On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants — AKA microreactors — to proliferate across the state. On Monday, the state Assembly ...

Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they still have some life?

Finland is preparing to open Onkalo, the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's how the underground vault ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste leftover from the manufacturing of the U.S. nuclear ...