These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear ...

A Rhode Island start-up is working to recycle spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power systems for the military ...

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Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is ...

Experts are having a nuclear meltdown. Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the containment area has sprung a dangerous leak — which could snowball amid ...

Nuclear power produces enormous amounts of electricity with almost no carbon emissions, but it leaves behind something that can remain dangerous for thousands of years. The United States alone has ...

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection released a follow-up study that specifically examined landfill leachate, the ...

DOE Flips Nuclear Waste Debate Upside Down Because 100,000-Year Risk Falls to 300 ...

Russia and China can black out military satellites in seconds. A Latvian startup says nuclear-waste generators using 5x less fuel could keep satellites—and lunar bases—running.

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