A union is calling for radioactive plutonium at a nuclear plant to be recycled into new nuclear fuel instead of stored. In ...

Researchers may have found a way to create a nuclear waste battery that could theoretically run for decades without needing ...

Buckeye scientists have a scintillating idea for recycling nuclear waste to generate even more energy from the abundant, air ...

The storage of nuclear waste has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. Now the Supreme Court will ...

Cao’s team tested the battery with two types of radioactive material: cesium-137 and cobalt-60. Cesium-137 is one of the most common fission products in nuclear waste, and cobalt-60 (also a ...

The waste remains dangerous for thousands of ... near exclusive control over the possession and transfer of nuclear material in the U.S., including the ability to issue licenses to private ...

Inspired by this idea, researchers in Ohio have developed a small battery powered by nuclear waste. They exposed scintillator crystals—a material that emits light when it absorbs radiation—to ...

argued that NRC “efforts to derive authority from material license provisions under the Atomic Energy Act don't work because storage is not use. As the 1982 [Nuclear Waste] Policy Act defines it ...

Recently, a leaflet was delivered to my home from Nuclear Waste Services, the company that is overseeing the final disposal ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state ...

Exclusive: The Coalition’s failure to account for the handling of radioactive waste produced under its nuclear power plan has ...