Rise of nuclear energy hinges not on reactors but on how safely the world manages its growing radioactive waste ...

The world is growing more power-hungry all the time, with more and larger devices, appliances, and vehicles hooking into the grid. It's a big part of what makes it difficult to adopt renewable power ...

For much of the past half-century, nuclear energy in the United States has occupied an uneasy space between a technology of the past and a technology of the future — but not quite one of the present.