Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Two projects developing new nuclear fuel transmutation technologies received $10 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Both of these ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

Nuclear waste remains a major environmental hazard due to its long-lasting radioactivity, which can persist for thousands of years. However, new research by University of Sharjah scientists, published ...

Scientists in the US have come up with a new molten-salt accelerator system that can potentially change the future of fusion energy by producing commercial tritium from nuclear waste. Led by Terence ...

Non-fuel radioactive waste is loaded into a rail car for delivery to a facility in Texas at the site of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn ...

More than a decade after Wisconsin's Kewaunee Power Station shut down, developers are seeking approval to bring the facility back online — a move that has many locals both hopeful and cautious. The ...

The problem of nuclear reactor waste will have to be resolved as nuclear energy becomes more frequently adopted as the world’s source of power. No one is pro nuclear waste. Simply, nuclear waste is a ...

The core module being lowered at China's Linglong One, the world's first commercial SMR, installed in 2023 in Changjiang, China. Holtec International has shuttered their plans to store nuclear waste ...