The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from ...

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U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes.

The national waste repository, an essential first step, is foundering amid popular opposition and the inconclusive decommissioning of our old power plants, entrusted to Sogin. The costs have ballooned ...

As Washington's energy industry and lawmakers take another look at nuclear power as a way to reach a carbon-free energy future, a perennial question is reemerging: What happens to the waste? Why it ...

The Department of Energy has long been burying plutonium waste beneath the surface of New Mexico's desert. The DOE stashes it inside carved-out salt beds, which act as a sealant. Plutonium, which has ...

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WASHINGTON - Congress was warned Tuesday that the failure to build the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants ...