After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

The prospect of loads of spent nuclear-fuel rods being hauled by transport trucks or rail cars through rural Northwestern Ontario to a future remote underground storage site remains a touchy ...

The storage of nuclear waste has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. Now the Supreme Court will ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has developed the world’s first uranium-based rechargeable battery. “We successfully developed ...

Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The ...

The oral arguments before the Supreme Court earlier this month is a reminder that our nation has a 66-year-old nuclear energy ...

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

are seeking to block Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval of a private nuclear waste storage facility in the Permian Basin, an area rich with oil deposits and limited sources of safe drinking ...

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

Senate Majority Leader David Hogue said the state should at least begin to explore the potential for nuclear and that waste ...

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the objections of state leaders.