Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...

The presence of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste stored “temporarily” at the San Onofre nuclear power plant — which was ...

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 ...

Nuclear power is seeing a renaissance due to the need for cleaner energy and rising electricity demand because of the increasing use of artificial intelligence. And now, it could also play a role in ...

SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns as 123 canisters of spent nuclear fuel ...

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

The problem of nuclear reactor waste will have to be resolved as nuclear energy becomes more frequently adopted as the world’s source of power. No one is pro nuclear waste. Simply, nuclear waste is a ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.