The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, has said that two specially designed and newly installed robots will need three years to remove 3,000 sandbags from the basements of the three destroyed ...

Nuclear waste management challenges threaten President Donald Trump's plan to quadruple America's nuclear capacity by 2050, as the Energy Department failed to dispose of spent fuel.

States are being asked to volunteer to host a permanent geological repository for spent fuel as part of a campus of facilities.

On the desert plateau above the Columbia River, a sprawling nuclear complex the size of a midsize county still holds the most ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

For decades, the world has grappled with how to safely and permanently dispose of vast amounts of highly radioactive waste from fission reactors. Now, a bold solution has emerged that could turn this ...

A massive Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who ...

A major cleanup breakthrough at one of the United Kingdom's most challenging nuclear sites is offering fresh optimism for the effort to tackle legacy radioactive waste. At Sellafield in Cumbria, ...

Hydrogen has long been regarded as a clean fuel that has the potential to move the world away from fossil fuel-based energy. It contains a high energy density per unit weight and produces only water ...