Reusing fuel could help alleviate a worsening supply-chain issue and a threat to new nuclear technology. Efforts to stand up nuclear fuel recycling projects accelerated this month with two major ...

Yellow barrels of radioactive waste lined up on shelves - Onurdongel/Getty Images Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that particle accelerators can crack one of nuclear power’s oldest problems: what to do with spent fuel that stays dangerously radioactive for ...

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has ramped up efforts to explore recycling spent nuclear fuel (SNF), or used nuclear fuel (UNF), from the nation’s fleet of light water reactors (LWRs), doling out $38 ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated community outreach to facilitate consent-based siting, management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and interim storage facility siting. The effort, outlined in ...

Nuclear energy is finally gaining some political momentum. While the amount of nuclear waste generated from energy operations is fairly small, many communities shun the idea of storing it themselves.

The Canadian government has announced measures in its latest budget "to help get nuclear projects built in a timely, predictable, and responsible fashion". The 2024 Federal Budget was unveiled in the ...

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