Geological disposal, optimized materials and greater use of digital tools to enhance communication with stakeholders are among the innovations the nuclear industry is developing to address outstanding ...

Advanced nuclear energy can, and should, play a major role in meeting the societal goal of 100% clean energy by mid-century. Advanced nuclear energy would complement other energy sources like wind and ...

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The "MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste" project will use novel ...

EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, though the approval process isn't over.

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

Missouri lawmakers formed a new committee to document the effects of radioactive waste in the St. Louis region and other Missouri sites and to search for policy solutions. Missouri lawmakers held an ...

Memo to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: We can imagine how excited you must be to star in “Honey, I Shrunk the Government!” We suspect you’d frown upon the idea of a brand new agency, sprouting like a ...

The Department of Energy Tuesday announced incentive payments of $89 million to five contractors working at the Hanford ...

A memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening their existing partnership and nuclear environmental protection and radioactive waste management in Brazil has been signed by the country's ...

A third aging underground tank at the Hanford nuclear site is suspected of leaking highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into the ground, the Department of Energy said Thursday. “This is ...