Radioactive waste and contamination, like that created during the Manhattan Project’s launch of the world’s first nuclear ...

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, has said that two specially designed and newly installed robots will need three years to remove 3,000 sandbags from the basements of the three destroyed ...

The agency noted that earlier staffing shortages led to "cost overruns, schedule delays, and accidents, including fires and ...

As the debate heats up over new sources of nuclear power in Colorado, 33,000 pounds of spent nuclear fuel decays northeast of ...

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 ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

Finland is on the verge of switching on what could become one of the most consequential infrastructure projects in the history of nuclear energy, a permanent underground repository designed to store ...

The first dismantling of a commercial reactor in Japan has started, ushering in a new period of decommissioning but with the ...

Researchers are exploring the use of radioactive waste to create ultra-long-life micro-nuclear batteries for specialized ...

London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...