As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear ...

The nuclear waste sitting at power plants across the United States contains enough energy to power the country for more than 100 years. But recycling spent uranium fuel was banned in 1977 because ...

We should not be surprised that there are proposals to build a new nuclear power station on the site of the existing Hunterston B facility. Last year, senior figures in BNFL spoke publicly about ...

A recently passed resolution by San Diego County seeks partnerships with national labs and companies to reprocess the waste ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear security office is developing a project to help other countries handle nuclear waste, an effort to keep the United States competitive ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Recycling radioactive waste from nuclear power has security and cost challenges but the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would be able to monitor the ...

A decision to close a nuclear waste reprocessing plant will cost around 1000 jobs in the UK's energy and supporting industries. Sellafield’s Mixed Oxcide Fuel (MOX) plant, which turns nuclear waste ...

Although the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) hasn’t generated nuclear power since 2013, nationwide 95 licensed commercial nuclear power reactors are currently in operation and ...

The long term problems of what to do with nuclear waste remain entirely unsolved, writes Andrew Blowers. Yet governments and the nuclear industry continue to peddle their untenable 'bury and forget' ...

The nuclear crisis in Japan threatens a carefully choreographed UK Government plan to tackle the world's biggest mountain of plutonium waste stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria. Japanese ...