Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

The team tested the battery prototype with cesium-137 and cobalt-60, common radioactive byproducts of nuclear reactors. Using ...

The Supreme Court will decide a high-stakes dispute over the storage of highly toxic nuclear waste at privately run U.S.

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric ...

The select board this week tabled discussion on a plan to bring a non-binding ballot question to voters that would have urged ...

Tons of radioactive refuse go into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor ...

Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department ...

Ohio State University researchers develop a battery that converts nuclear waste into electricity using scintillator crystals ...

State attorneys are set to argue the Nuclear Regulatory Commission erred in issuing a license for a temporary nuclear waste ...

The U.S. Supreme Court was hearing arguments on Wednesday on whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to ...