The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

Vacant apartments in Missouri are the latest site where radioactive contamination was found. It's tied to improper disposal ...

Deep Isolation Nuclear has been selected for SCALEUP Ready, which supports Cameron, Texas, commercial pilot to demonstrate ...

Built deep inside 1.9 billion-year-old bedrock, the facility, known as the Onkalo nuclear waste repository, is designed to ...

The world's first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades ...

The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels about the use of ...

Moving an object in space is very energy-consuming, even once a spacecraft has escaped the gravity well of a planet. This is ...

Tennessee’s leaders are weighing a plan that could mean more nuclear waste is stored in the Volunteer State. State lawmakers ...

Last May, Trump signed four executive orders aimed at reviving what he called an industry “atrophied” by regulation. The US ...

President Trump’s sweeping nuclear energy and weapons agenda has prompted revisions of longstanding radiation standards.

A spokesperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote that the agency was still in the process of amending the framework for radiation protection, adding that “public health and safety will ...