The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that particle accelerators can crack one of nuclear power’s oldest ...

Stafford Sheehan’s new startup Project Omega is working with the U.S. government to turn nuclear waste into “unlimited energy." ...

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.

Nuclear power is squarely in the spotlight once again. As my colleague Erik Funkhouser pointed out in his recent article, enthusiasm for nuclear has come and gone before. But today’s “nuclear ...

The future of nuclear energy depends on moving past the politics of nuclear waste and implementing long-overdue reforms to funding, regulation, and community engagement. Nuclear power has widespread ...

Effective nuclear waste management is a critical global challenge, particularly for countries like the UK looking to expand their nuclear power sectors. The UK has a substantial amount of existing ...

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 ...

Overlooking the tennis courts and terraced houses of Millom, a pair of iron velociraptor sculptures stalk a landscaped garden of slate, gorse and buttercups. This prehistoric idyll is a £295,600 ($403 ...

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 ...

One of the most formidable obstacles to exploiting the full potential of nuclear energy is the long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste that is generated by the burning of fuel in nuclear ...