The Supreme Court's final decision, expected in June, will significantly impact technology corporations, the nuclear energy industry, and federal agencies. At stake is nothing less than the future of ...

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

Consolidated Nuclear Security currently operates and manages the facility. Some of the barrels ended up at a company in Erwin ...

Researchers may have found a way to create a nuclear waste battery that could theoretically run for decades without needing to recharge.

However, the major bugbear of the technology has always been the problem of waste. Many of the byproducts from the operation of nuclear plants are radioactive, and remain so for thousands of years.

Used nuclear fuel is solid ceramic pellet that is not flammable, explosive and not water soluble.

Carved out of an ancient salt formation about half a mile (800 meters) deep, the subterranean landfill received its first shipment of radioactive waste in 1999. The idea is that the shifting salt ...

Scientists have achieved a major milestone in energy storage after developing a nuclear battery that can convert atomic waste into electricity. A team in the US has already tested the next ...