Oak Ridge researchers are converting nuclear waste into components for targeted alpha therapy, a cancer treatment that ...

As nuclear power projects operate there will be an increase in the waste they produce. Spent nuclear fuel would constitute a ...

The thorniest issue is the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. SONGS officials say that it’s stored safely in sealed ...

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As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose ...

BOISE — A barrel containing radioactive sludge ruptured at an Idaho nuclear facility, federal officials said Thursday, resulting in no injuries and no risk to the public but possibly slowing ...

Fundamentally, we are not addressing the harms of nuclear weapons, which keep growing. Spending on “modernizing” the nuclear ...

The group argued nuclear waste storage in the region could also endanger the oil and gas industry, a major arm of the local and national economy, along with nearby farming and ranching producers.

Some of the barrels ended up at a company in Erwin called Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., which is owned by BWX Technologies -- a company that was formerly part of B&W before it spun off its power ...

Barrels of nuclear waste. Image source: lassedesignen/Adobe. The former is a common fission product, and it generated 288 nanowatts of power. The latter is used in medical radiation treatments and ...

The waste should really be a chief selling point for nuclear energy, particularly for those who care about the environment: There’s not very much of it, it’s easily contained, it becomes safer ...

Texas says that’s not allowed under either the 1954 law or the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the law that was supposed to pave the way for permanent storage in a federal facility.