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 ...

A Wayne County judge has permanently blocked a hazardous waste landfill from accepting radioactive waste. The waste ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste leftover from the manufacturing of the U.S. nuclear ...

As atomic power enjoys a second act in the U.S., there is a renewed push to scale technology that can extract energy from radioactive waste—and even reap power from Cold War-era bombs.

Nuclear energy is great because it doesn't produce any harmful emissions, but the waste it does produce can stick around for ...

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 ...