By bundling spent fuel siting with advanced reactor deployment, the Energy Department's nuclear campus plan exposes nuclear ...

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...

A project led by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory on transmutation technologies for used nuclear fuel has been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has invited private firms to restart spent nuclear fuel reprocessing after nearly five decades, while Russia’s BN-800 fast reactor completed trials burning hazardous ...

The state of Tennessee has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy arguing Oak Ridge is the premier site for a nuclear campus that would likely include radioactive waste disposal. The ...

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 ...

ALMATY – Kazakhstan’s lower chamber of parliament, the Mazhilis, approved in the first reading a draft law on radioactive ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has praised progress made by Poland in safely managing its radioactive waste, and recommended further steps as the country moves ahead with its ...

Lightbridge is developing a next-generation nuclear fuel design, Lightbridge Fuel, to improve the economics, safety, and proliferation resistance of existing and new reactors. The design includes ...