The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

Nuclear fuel rods that work more efficiently, last much longer, and minimize nuclear waste may soon help generate more sustainable energy sources. Interesting Engineering shared the latest development ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An interstate panel may consider a resolution on whether to allow EnergySolutions to import up to 1.3 million cubic yards of ...

The Hanford nuclear reservation in Southeastern Washington was the epicenter of plutonium enrichment during WW II and through the Cold War. For more than 20 years, an effort to safely dispose and ...

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

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...

Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children ...

To residents, cleanup at a Parks Township nuclear waste dump will look like a few trucks leaving the site every week, said Nicholas Melina, Commander of the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of ...

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

How do you feel about radioactive waste in your backyard? Well, last year, by cloak of darkness, Wayne Disposal, Inc. (WDI), a hazardous waste landfill located in Belleville, had planned to accept ...

A preliminary injunction has confirmed – and expanded – a temporary restraining order preventing radioactive waste from being dumped at a Wayne County, Michigan, facility. The legal fight began in ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...