After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

Nuclear power has long been a reliable energy source, supplying nearly 20% of electricity in the United States. While it does ...

"This approach will carve an important space for itself in both the energy production and sensors industry." Scientists ...

But between such extremes of everyday life and the abstract future, we can find waste everywhere. After spending more than ...

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

After more than three decades and over £13 billion spent, this nuclear megaproject is no closer to completion than it was in ...

The power plants in Colstrip have been providing power to the American West since the 1970s, but coal-powered electricity is ...

Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities can take decades to study and build. At its disposal site, Posiva has drilled an array of tunnels spanning a collective 10 kilometers, Tuohimaa said.

Councillor Martin Hill called on Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) to "comprehensively explain the benefits and costs" of the ...

The Kebaowek First Nation is celebrating a second court win in the last month in its battle against the building of a nuclear ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...