Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

The Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license allowing a private company to store ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

The Supreme Court will decide a high-stakes dispute over the storage of highly toxic nuclear waste at privately run U.S.

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric ...

Tons of radioactive refuse go into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor ...

The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in ...

Reports suggest the justices are favoring Texas, though a ruling in the state’s favor could counter its recent efforts at ...

The justices will hear arguments Wednesday on whether federal regulators can authorize temporary waste storage far from ...

“That doesn’t sound very interim to me,” Justice Neil Gorsuch said, while also questioning the advisability of storing spent nuclear fuel “on a concrete platform in the Permian ...

The legislative push to build nuclear power plants in North Dakota could run up against a perennial problem -- the U.S. lacks ...