AOMORI--The governor of Aomori is set to sign off on storing spent nuclear fuel in the coastal town of Mutsu in this prefecture, launching Japan’s first non-power plant storage facility. Governor ...

KAMINOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Neighboring municipalities have grown irate over a surprise plan to build an interim storage facility here for spent nuclear fuel, but there may be little they can do ...

The Environment Ministry said Friday that storage of nuclear waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and surrounding areas in interim facilities has begun -- nearly four years after the ...

The US is weighing a policy shift by offering US states incentives to host nuclear waste facilities as it pushes an ambitious expansion of atomic power to meet rising electricity demand ...

The Trump administration’s growing nuclear energy push now includes enlisting state help handling spent fuel, a politically ...

Recent controversies over sprawling energy development have triggered a slate of bills to empower voters and communities in state-level energy ambitions.

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

The administration of President Donald Trump wants to quadruple US nuclear power capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050 as electricity demand surges for the first time in decades.

In Campbell County, Wyoming, commissioners have delayed a decision on nuclear waste storage amid strong public opposition. As County17 reported, the draft resolution proposed would prevent the storage ...

As an aftermath of the 3/11 nuclear accident in 2011, Japan shut down all of its 48 nuclear reactors and they remain inactive at present. Recently two reactors at Satsuma-Sendai in Kagoshima ...

High-level radioactive waste has a great impact on living organisms and must be stored in isolation. This storage facility is named ' Onkalo ', which means 'cavity' or 'pit' in Finnish, and stores ...

The Energy Department plans to build a storage site for high-level nuclear waste from U.S. weapons systems. Energy officials, who didn't give a timeline for developing the repository, said they will ...