DOE Flips Nuclear Waste Debate Upside Down Because 100,000-Year Risk Falls to 300 ...

There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

Nuclear power produces enormous amounts of electricity with almost no carbon emissions, but it leaves behind something that ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

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 ...

State regulators said that years of missed cleanup deadlines for the toxic by-products from the Cold War era are increasing the risks of nuclear contamination. With the recent expiration of the ...

A team of researchers has initiated a deep drilling project underneath a mountain in ...

Nuclear energy is hot and everyone wants a piece of the action. President Donald Trump has announced his vision to quadruple America’s nuclear capacity by 2050, and 33 countries signed a declaration ...

"The same goes for the legal or financial responsibility." Officials spark backlash with concerning plan for nuclear waste: 'Will change dramatically' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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 ...