After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday jumped into the decades-long dispute over what to do with thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste, as it considered a plan to store it above one of ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with ...

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.

The second is whether the federal agency has the power to license such facilities away from reactor sites where the waste was generated. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission purports to allow a ...

A Saint John-based nuclear engineering company says it has hit a milestone in its aim to reduce waste coming from nuclear energy by turning that waste into usable energy. The company — Moltex ...

WASHINGTON — The shadow of the long-stalled proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, loomed over Supreme Court proceedings Wednesday as the justices weighed a dispute over the ...

It’s a separate campus from the actual storage facility ... on the chopping block but cutting one that oversees nuclear waste could be dangerous. “We’re demanding that the Department ...

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the objections of state leaders. The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews ...