Nuclear energy isn't exactly clean, with nuclear waste never exactly going away. But this inventive new process might help ...

After France raised the cost of its Cigéo nuclear waste storage project to €33.3 billion, an increase of more than €8 billion ...

Tennessee’s leaders are weighing a plan that could mean more nuclear waste is stored in the Volunteer State. State lawmakers ...

The structural integrity of the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands, described as a 115-meter-wide concrete 'coffin,' is ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

The nuclear waste problem may explode once again ...

Workers discovered a radioactive wasp nest near tanks storing liquid nuclear waste. Officials say there’s no need to panic, but watchdog groups are skeptical. Fourteen years since one of the worst ...

North Dakota lawmakers are studying radioactive waste storage as the state considers nuclear energy, which is a decade away.

The state of Tennessee has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy arguing Oak Ridge is the premier site for a ...

Join us as we explore how and why scientists are turning radioactive ooze into glass in Washington State ...

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...