Wyoming state lawmakers introduced a measure to ban nuclear waste storage unless it was specifically approved by a vote of ...

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But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones— and the bill is potentially staggering.Standing in a 1960 s industrial building by the German Baltic Sea coast, Florian Grose, holds a ...

If Minnesota doesn’t lift its 32-year-old ban on new nuclear power reactors soon, it could blow through a self-imposed 2040 ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving nuclear waste storage plans in rural Texas and New Mexico. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent agency that regulates ...

The two nuclear reactors at FPL Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Homestead, Florida. (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON ...

Whether it’s used batteries, solar panels, or spent nuclear fuel, getting use out of something destined for disposal sounds like a win all around. In nuclear energy, figuring out what to do with waste ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

The City of Fort Smith released a statement on Facebook on Dec. 18 saying it was not interested or considered to be a site for nuclear waste. “Addressing recent concerns, the City of Fort Smith has ...

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The ...