Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...

The presence of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste stored “temporarily” at the San Onofre nuclear power plant — which was permanently shut down in 2013 after severe problems with key plant equipment ...

A technology developed for solar energy has been adapted to selectively remove one of the most-difficult-to-remove elements in nuclear waste pools, making the storage of nuclear waste safer and ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

No, no, hell no, and no again! said Texas and its powerful oil industry, in a legal challenge to the federal government’s power to license privately-operated nuclear waste storage sites in the Lone ...

Over nearly five decades, nuclear waste has been treated as an intractable problem, locked in dry casks, relegated to repositories that are slow to materialize, and generally viewed as a costly ...

Europe has been turning uranium into energy for over half a century. In the process, the continent has amassed vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. This radioactive material can take millions of years to ...

In March 2010 the Department of Energy informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- the nation's independent nuclear regulatory body -- of its decision to withdraw the federal government's ...