As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

A recently passed resolution by San Diego County seeks partnerships with national labs and companies to reprocess the waste ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Sealed in steel containers near the beach at San Onofre, scores of spent nuclear fuel rods ...

A Utah company is leading a charge to take and store radioactive waste from Canada. Opponents say it’s a bad idea, and that ...

It is common for nuclear engineers to be concerned with the disposition of nuclear waste. After all, the United States alone currently has about 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel stored in ...

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday approved a slate of bipartisan bills spanning issues from nuclear waste recycling to plastics cleanup and diesel emissions. Most of the ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Jeff Talbert and Christopher Joseph of Arnold & Porter discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in 'NRC v. Texas' which limits who can challenge nuclear waste storage licenses. The decision leaves ...

(The Center Square) – An advocate for developing nuclear energy in his home state, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has proposed a bill to advance nuclear fuel recycling, including research over its ...