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 ...

Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste deposit at the Forsmark Spent Fuel Repository, designed to securely store ...

Nuclear waste and a hydrogen economy may seem poles apart, but a new study by the University of Sharjah claims that spent fuel from nuclear power plants could be used to increase the efficiency 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 ...

Curio’s NuCycle process turns U.S. nuclear waste into profitable fuel and cuts storage time from 100,000 years to just 300.

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 ...

When Kim Visintine looks back on her childhood growing up in the St. Louis suburb of Florissant in the 1970s, she fondly remembers all the time she and other neighborhood kids spent frolicking outside ...

Hidden in the fine print of the AUKUS agreement is the need for Australia to manage the nuclear waste produced by new submarines.

On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants — AKA microreactors — to proliferate across the state. On Monday, the state Assembly ...

Despite nuclear power’s unmatched ability to produce reliable, carbon-free energy at scale, it is often dismissed by clean energy advocates in favor of renewable resources like wind and solar. Cost ...