Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

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 ...

Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...

Non-fuel radioactive waste is loaded into a rail car for delivery to a facility in Texas at the site of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn ...