The revival of nuclear power is accelerating efforts to develop permanent solutions for managing highly radioactive spent fuel.

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

DeepGEO believes part of the answer could lie in another difficult problem, which is what the world does with spent nuclear ...

Reprocessing promises to recycle nuclear waste, but it fails on technology, cost, security, and waste management—and distracts from the nuclear technologies that actually work.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has spelled out several areas that present challenges to domestic and global development of nuclear power. Chief among those issues is building a ...

Singapore is weighing nuclear fission and carving out a role in the fusion supply chain after the Iran war exposed its reliance on imported oil and gas.

Scaling-up nuclear capacity remains one of the major challenges for the global nuclear industry, and Polina Lion, chief sustainability officer of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, outlined ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new report from CNBC examined the problem of nuclear waste disposal, as the Trump administration plans to ...

What is perhaps the only thing more frustrating than not having a nearly limitless source of safe, clean energy? Having a nearly limitless source of safe, clean energy — and not being allowed to use ...

Lockheed Martin's concept for a fission surface power (FSP) system on the surface of the moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin No technology holds more transformative potential for America’s space aspirations ...

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