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

The latest flashpoint, which hits the Supreme Court on Wednesday, involves a proposed storage site in West Texas. ...

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 ...

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

The legislative push to build nuclear power plants in North Dakota could run up against a perennial problem -- the U.S. lacks ...

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

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 Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices ...

In case you’re keeping score, there’s a move in Florida to remove cavity-fighting fluoride in the drinking water while adding radioactive industrial waste products to roads. I know.

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the ...