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

In New Hampshire and across New England, nuclear energy is in the spotlight. But as plans for the region’s nuclear future are ...

Lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be the ...

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

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

The great problem with nuclear energy, hidden from the public as often as possible by the federal government and special interests, is the quantities of radioactive waste nuclear reactors produce.

A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...

The spent nuclear fuel canisters are closely monitored using external sensors, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Japan has raised global concern, after reportedly taking initial steps to explore a tiny ...

Campaign group Lakes Against Nuclear Dump says it will look at lodging an appeal.