Fast neutron reactors can increase efficiency of nuclear energy and shrink the environmental footprint of radioactive waste. Several countries are looking to these innovative reactors to help ensure a ...

but they produce a significantly higher volume of nuclear waste. Despite concerns about nuclear waste, the development and deployment of microreactors continue to gain momentum, driven in part by ...

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is leading a bipartisan amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to validate a lower court ruling preventing nuclear waste from being deposited in his state.

However, one major obstacle shadows its potential: the management of radioactive waste. With the growing number of nuclear reactors globally, the accumulation of this hazardous byproduct poses a ...

Given the dark clouds still lingering over nuclear power, especially its unresolved waste problem, these renewable alternatives deserve renewed consideration. This is an opinion and analysis ...

The first-ever 'tomb' for nuclear waste, located nearly 1,500 feet below the surface, will soon be sealed off from humans for 100,000 years to break down safely. Finland's $4 billion Onkalo ...

How do we send a message a hundred millennia into the future to warn our descendants of dangerous nuclear waste buried deep underground? In this article poet Paul Farley – presenter of Radio 4 ...

A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, one of the largest, most complex nuclear waste clean-up sites in the world.