Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

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 ...

To residents, cleanup at a Parks Township nuclear waste dump will look like a few trucks leaving the site every week, said Nicholas Melina, Commander of the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of ...

New Mexico environment officials on Thursday issued new requirements for the federal government’s operation of the nation’s ...

Nuclear energy is hot and everyone wants a piece of the action. President Donald Trump has announced his vision to quadruple America’s nuclear capacity by 2050, and 33 countries signed a declaration ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Jade Hindman. On today's show , we'll tell you about plans for San Onofre spent nuclear waste. This is KPBS Midday Edition. Connecting our communities through ...

Finland's Posiva is on the verge of receiving an operating license for the world's first permanent nuclear waste disposal facility, built 400 meters underground in 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock at a ...

German engineering firm Bilfinger and research institute Fraunhofer IOSB are developing a tele-operated system ...

Though newly popular, the nuclear program in the US is nothing new. The US hosts more reactors and production capacity than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Teen Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA in Washington, July 24, 2019.