The Trump administration will seek interest from U.S. states as soon as this week on storing nuclear waste in return for ...

The capsules contain about 30% of all the radioactivity at the Hanford nuclear site.

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

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.

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

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 ...

It is common for nuclear engineers to be concerned with the disposition of nuclear waste. After all, the United States alone currently has about 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel stored in ...

The core module being lowered at China's Linglong One, the world's first commercial SMR, installed in 2023 in Changjiang, China. Holtec International has shuttered their plans to store nuclear waste ...

Doomsday scenario: Terrorists commandeer a 747 and crash it into San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s dry waste storage pad. Are we all going to die? Well, yes, someday. But probably not from this.

In the early 1980s, southeast Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that comes ...

Nuclear waste remains a major environmental hazard due to its long-lasting radioactivity, which can persist for thousands of years. However, new research by University of Sharjah scientists, published ...