A research team at The Ohio State University has demonstrated a small battery that generates electricity from the gamma ...

Nearly 80 years of US nuclear waste is stuck in "temporary" storage sites. How big of a problem is that?

THE earthquake and tsunami that led to the loss of all electrical power and the meltdown of reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant inevitably put nuclear energy back on the front page. It was the ...

AI’s soaring power demand is giving a failed USD 400 million US nuclear project a second chance. But high costs, radioactive ...

On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants - AKA microreactors - to proliferate across the state. On Monday, the state Assembly ...

What would happen if we launched nuclear waste into the Sun? As nuclear power expands and more spent nuclear fuel is produced ...

A new federal effort to develop nuclear “lifecycle” campuses has produced something Washington, D.C., has rarely seen: states ...

After decades of stalemate over what to do with radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, the U.S. Department of Energy is hoping states can be convinced to take in some of that used fuel as part ...

A rare visit to the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, where Japanese researchers are testing options for storing radioactive waste.

Sen. William Parkinson is reaching back to a nearly forgotten chapter of Guam history as he tries to stop Japan from burying ...

Last year, national nuclear supplier BWX Technologies purchased the factory in Jonesborough, Tennessee and announced plans ...