Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they still have some life?

Radioactive waste and contamination, like that created during the Manhattan Project’s launch of the world’s first nuclear ...

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 ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

Finland is on the verge of switching on what could become one of the most consequential infrastructure projects in the history of nuclear energy, a permanent underground repository designed to store ...

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 ...

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 ...