ST. LOUIS — After years of reporting the radioactive waste in the St. Louis region, we go back to where it all began. The story begins in 1942 in downtown St. Louis. "Back in World War II, there was ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

The United States is set to begin a cleanup mission of a nuclear waste dump ...

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 ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...

Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear waste that require proper disposal. The main enemy here is time. All radioactive ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Radioactive waste held in underground tanks has begun to be transferred for the first time to the massive Hanford nuclear site ...

A US research team is developing a safer, more efficient method to recycle used nuclear fuel. The new chemical process, developed by the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), in collaboration with SHINE ...

Researchers review methods that repurpose nuclear waste to generate hydrogen, aiming to lower storage needs and support cleaner energy production. Hydrogen is currently recognized as a promising clean ...

Japan assured responsible disposal of waste, risk assessment, and respecting community input, as it responded to Sen. Will ...