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

One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at the Department of ...

The Kishida administration has unveiled a policy initiative to deal with high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants through “united government-wide” efforts. The government plans to step ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Nuclear energy offers several advantages: It's clean, powerful and relatively cheap. But it also yields hazardous waste, a fact that terrifies a public haunted by ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

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 ...

The government must face up to the fact that there is no easy solution to the disposal of nuclear waste that will continue to be generated from nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Waste Management ...

State regulators said that years of missed cleanup deadlines for the toxic by-products from the Cold War era are increasing the risks of nuclear contamination. With the recent expiration of the ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...