On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants — AKA ...

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 ...

The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

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 ...

The world’s first permanent underground repository for spent nuclear fuel is nearing operations in ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used fuel ...

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 ...

2011 was a scary year for nuclear reactor sites. The summer floods threatened to encroach on reactors in Nebraska and Iowa, an earthquake and a hurricane happened in quick secession to rattle and ...

The current push for a nuclear energy revival is not our country’s first rodeo. We’ve seen these promises before, and they’ve rarely lived up to the hype. In the 1950s, Lewis Strauss, the first ...

According to the Michigan Advance, "Zombies Against Palisades" saw protesters donned in Halloween costumes and armed with poignant signage. The protest was mainly about the Palisades nuclear plant ...

This thunderclap — so obvious, yet so elusive — comes in a new bipartisan plan penned by an esteemed group of nuclear experts, including Allison Macfarlane, erstwhile chair of the U.S. Nuclear ...