Reaching nearly 1,840 feet below the surface, the laboratory’s extreme depth introduced serious safety challenges during ...

It includes a 660-foot-tall structure that carries thermal energy. China launches construction of unusual nuclear power plant ...

The Trump administration pushes nuclear power center stage. Vermont’s congressional delegation works to help communities storing the radioactive fuel left behind.

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

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Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

The Indian Point nuclear power plant was an energy juggernaut for 50 years, generating a quarter of the electricity that powered New York City’s iconic, glowing skyline. It is well into its ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely ...

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 ...

The problem of nuclear reactor waste will have to be resolved as nuclear energy becomes more frequently adopted as the world’s source of power. No one is pro nuclear waste. Simply, nuclear waste is a ...

Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? No, says Prof. Kristina Kvashnina of the Helmholtz-Zentrum-Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). With the aid of new EU funding, she wants ...