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 ...

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 ...

On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants — AKA microreactors — to proliferate across the state. On Monday, the state Assembly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the two spent fuel pools at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, where waste is stored before being transferred to casks ...

The current push for a nuclear energy revival is not our country’s first rodeo. We’ve seen these promises before, and they’ve rarely lived up to the hype. In the 1950s, Lewis Strauss, the first ...

One of the two spent fuel pools at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, where waste is stored before being transferred to casks kept on site. The federal government has yet to develop a permanent ...

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 ...

One of the most formidable obstacles to exploiting the full potential of nuclear energy is the long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste that is generated by the burning of fuel in nuclear ...

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 ...

This thunderclap — so obvious, yet so elusive — comes in a new bipartisan plan penned by an esteemed group of nuclear experts, including Allison Macfarlane, erstwhile chair of the U.S. Nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A truck delivers a container to the low-level waste vaults at the Dounreay nuclear site in Dounreay, Scotland, Britain November 25 ...