America's nascent nuclear renaissance is under threat from a combination of bureaucratic inertia and institutional capture ...

For decades, the most radioactive category of low-level waste in the U.S. has had a disposal plan that exists only on paper: ...

The U.S. has over 100,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste sitting in temporary storage. Former NRC chairman Allison ...

North Dakota lawmakers are considering changes to state law to encourage the development of nuclear power. One potential ...

A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...

The great problem with nuclear energy, hidden from the public as often as possible by the federal government and special interests, is the quantities of radioactive waste nuclear reactors produce.

The world’s nuclear power plants have produced an estimated 448,000 tonnes (494,000 U.S. tons) ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

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.The justices, by ...

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 ...

Lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be the ...

New Croatian law paving the way for a radioactive waste disposal centre near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina draws outrcy from Bosnian officials and environmentalists. A file photo dated 12 ...