In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear ...

In early November, Constellation Energy proposed a further expansion of the Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center in Calvert County. But that plan, like every proposed nuclear expansion nationwide, faces ...

DOE Flips Nuclear Waste Debate Upside Down Because 100,000-Year Risk Falls to 300 ...

Residents in Eastern Kentucky raised concerns about timing, cost and waste during a PSC meeting late last week.

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

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes. The Jefferson Lab project, ...

Nuclear waste repository siting presents an unprecedented intergenerational challenge: decisions made today will affect approximately 5,000 future generations over 100,000 years. Contemporary ...

The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense on Sunday for the first time transported a small nuclear reactor on a cargo plane ...

This story was reported as part of The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship and is republished here with permission. After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding that the Energy ...

A Freedom Caucus-backed measure to ban spent nuclear fuel waste storage in Wyoming, unless affirmed by a vote of the people, failed to receive the two-thirds vote required to advance in the ...

After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding that the Energy Department expedite the cleanup of so-called legacy nuclear and hazardous waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the ...