A Washington-based company has successfully validated its borehole technology for safe disposal of high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactor fuel recycling. Deep Isolation’s analysis ...

America's nascent nuclear renaissance is under threat from a combination of bureaucratic inertia and institutional capture ...

Many communities across the United States are overburdened with poisonous substances placed in the environment by fossil fuel, agrochemical, and technology industries. Southeast Michigan, the most ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels about the use of vitrification to safely store nuclear waste at a former weapons site in ...

One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Thomas ...

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation Nuclear Inc announced that federally funded research has shown that deep borehole disposal could be a viable option for disposing of high-level ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Niagara Falls Storage Site in Lewiston, New York, was previously used to store uranium residue from the Manhattan Project to ...

Hidden in the fine print of the AUKUS agreement is the need for Australia to manage the nuclear waste produced by new submarines.

KDKA-TV Investigator Andy Sheehan began his broadcast journalism career in September 1992, when he joined KDKA after reporting for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nine years. Andy's forte is the ...