Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

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

The latest flashpoint, which hits the Supreme Court on Wednesday, involves a proposed storage site in West Texas. ...

The team tested the battery prototype with cesium-137 and cobalt-60, common radioactive byproducts of nuclear reactors. Using ...

Eversource says costs at the plants do not affect its current electric rates, and ratepayers haven’t been paying for expenses ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices ...

The Supreme Court will decide a high-stakes dispute over the storage of highly toxic nuclear waste at privately run U.S.

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric ...

The case examines whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to grant a license to Interim Storage Partners, ...

Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license ...

Tons of radioactive refuse go into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor ...