After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons ...

Nuclear power has a lot of potential when it comes to clean energy, but what happens to the waste? It depends, because not all nuclear waste is created equal.

Billions of alkaline-loving microbes could offer a new way to protect nuclear waste buried deep underground. This approach ...

Research shows that low-pH cements may allow microbes to strengthen nuclear waste barriers by sealing cracks in geological ...

A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Around ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine ...

Project UPWARDS has culminated in the manufacture, physical testing and validation of a disposal-ready Universal Canister ...

County commissioners passed a resolution to oppose nuclear waste storage, and in support of putting the issue to a statewide vote.

Completion of Project UPWARDS marks an important milestone in Deep Isolation’s roadmap toward full-scale demonstration and eventual use for spent nuclear fuel disposal. The results provide a strong ...

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Deep Fission says it plans to install a nuclear reactor underground in southeast Kansas, part of a national push for new ...