The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp criticism from fiscal watchdogs and raising fresh questions about whether the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from ...

"The same goes for the legal or financial responsibility." Officials spark backlash with concerning plan for nuclear waste: ...

There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

The national waste repository, an essential first step, is foundering amid popular opposition and the inconclusive decommissioning of our old power plants, entrusted to Sogin. The costs have ballooned ...

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Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for ...

Scientists are moving towards finding solutions to nuclear energy crisis which for decades, has been regarded as the black ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...