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.

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A Michigan judge postponed his decision Tuesday regarding the controversial storage of radioactive waste at Wayne Disposal Inc., a landfill facility in Van Buren Township.

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 ...

While not the most headline-grabbing ruling of the day, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sidestepped a complaint from a business that opposed the storage of spent nuclear fuel or "radioactive waste ...

Holtec International, facing an "untenable path forward" for a long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in New Mexico, will explore options in other states, the Camden firm has announced. Holtec ...

Workers pull the first concrete cask filled with cesium capsules out of the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. Washington state Department of ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has praised progress made by Poland in safely managing its radioactive ...

MINSK, 27 February (BelTA) - Belarus is drafting a decree on a radioactive waste storage facility, BelTA learned from the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. More than 200 drums of radioactive waste are to be transferred from Melbourne University and stored indefinitely in the city's leafy ...