Nuclear power has long been a reliable energy source, supplying nearly 20% of electricity in the United States. While it does ...

Nuclear power comes with almost zero greenhouse gas emissions, but has its own issues in the form of radioactive waste.

The lawsuit underscored a touchy subject — plans to store nuclear waste deep under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the only permanent storage site in the United States allowed by federal law ...

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.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday jumped into the decades-long dispute over what to do with thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste, as it considered a plan to store it above one of ...

Researchers have developed a prototype battery that harnesses radiation from nuclear waste to generate electricity, offering a potential ...

The second is whether the federal agency has the power to license such facilities away from reactor sites where the waste was generated. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission purports to allow a ...

A form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted during radioactive decay. It is more penetrating than X-rays ... This new technology explores the possibility of utilizing nuclear waste to ...

WASHINGTON — The shadow of the long-stalled proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, loomed over Supreme Court proceedings Wednesday as the justices weighed a dispute over the ...

Researchers from BARC have developed a unique solution to piling Uranium mill tailings: converting them into a geopolymer ...

Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget ...