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 Department of Energy is asking Congress for new legal authority to manage spent nuclear fuel and move past the longstanding impasse over Yucca Mountain, the only site currently authorized for long ...

Five states could store nuclear waste under a new Trump administration plan, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Tuesday. The proposal could give a boost to the nuclear energy sector, which in ...

Nuclear power is vital for U.S. energy security and decarbonization, however, more than 91,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel remain without a permanent storage solution. Reprocessing and recycling ...

Idaho's role in nuclear energy waste management is under scrutiny as the DOE considers the state for a Nuclear Lifecycle ...

Electricity bills keep climbing, with Americans paying on average 32% more than five years ago. One of the key dynamics contributing to higher prices is electricity supply is not keeping up with ...

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In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to a Department of Energy facility — currently ...

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Some 2 billion years ago, a natural-uranium deposit deep underground in what is now the west-central African country of Gabon spontaneously went critical. In the only known case of a nuclear-fission ...

London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

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