Though newly popular, the nuclear program in the US is nothing new. The US hosts more reactors and production capacity than ...

Radioactive waste arises fromdiverse sources, including the operation of nuclear power plants, nuclear fuelcycle facilities, and the application of radionuclides in research, healthcare,accelerators, ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission Inc. (Deep Fission), the pioneering nuclear energy startup revolutionizing the industry by placing reactors a mile underground, and Deep Isolation, a ...

Somewhere beneath the pine forests of southwestern Finland, more than 400 meters of ancient rock separate the surface from a ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from tens of thousands of years to roughly 300, a timeline short enough for ...

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission have launched public consultations for the proposed deep geological repository […] ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...

First vitrified Hanford radioactve waste disposed of at site. 30 containers of glassified waste staged as disposal started. DOE says its an important step in Hanford nuclear site cleanup. Richland, ...