North Dakota lawmakers are studying radioactive waste storage as the state considers nuclear energy, which is a decade away.

"There's no good option, but it's important to find the least bad option." ...

Onkalo is the world's first facility for permanently disposing radioactive spent nuclear fuel. It is expected to operate ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a nuclear regulatory bill on Wednesday that she says will effectively lift a 40-year moratorium on ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste ...

In New Hampshire and across New England, nuclear energy is in the spotlight. But as plans for the region’s nuclear future are ...

A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an ...

The great problem with nuclear energy, hidden from the public as often as possible by the federal government and special interests, is the quantities of radioactive waste nuclear reactors ...

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 ...

For almost half a century, New Jersey regulated new nuclear reactors to death. This is no exaggeration: In 1977, the state added requirements for such plants to dispose of nuclear waste in a permanent ...