The federal government is quietly asking governors a blunt question: which of them is prepared to host every stage of the ...

Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing The Department of Energy ...

Experts want the responsibility for permanent disposal of nuclear waste in the hands of a nonprofit or similar corporate entity. Which is a nice way of saying the ...

The first highly radioactive capsules of cesium stored underwater in an aging pool at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington were transferred this week to safer dry storage.

Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

The Trump administration will seek interest from US states as soon as this week on storing nuclear waste in return for incentives to build nuclear reactors, Reuters reported.

Deep Isolation has completed a DOE-funded project validating corrosion-resistant UCS canisters for deep borehole disposal of ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

Consumers across the country continue to see their electricity bills rise. On average, they are paying 7 percent more than last year and 32 percent more than five years ago, according to Energy ...

Isotek Systems is processing nuclear waste from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to extract a rare medical isotope. The extracted isotope, actinium-225, is used in targeted alpha therapy to destroy ...

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 ...

Non-fuel radioactive waste is loaded into a rail car for delivery to a facility in Texas at the site of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn ...