Though newly popular, the nuclear program in the US is nothing new. The US hosts more reactors and production capacity than ...

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 ...

Scientists have used the power of AI to analyze and predict the conversion of liquid radioactive waste into solid glass waste ...

Yellow barrels of radioactive waste lined up on shelves - Onurdongel/Getty Images Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bulgaria is making strides toward safe, permanent disposal of its nuclear waste. The country has completed construction of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nuclear energy is often regarded as the cleanest power source on Earth. Unlike coal or gas, nuclear power plants don't release smoke and other contaminants into the air. They produce massive amounts ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah company is seeking permission to bring in low-level radioactive waste from Canada for disposal at a facility in Tooele County, which has sparked concern from some ...

Navarro-ATL has been awarded a one-year extension to its contract to operate and manage a key laboratory at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. The company won the Department of Energy ...