A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with low radioactive contamination from the vitrification plant turned into ...

Non-fuel radioactive waste is loaded into a rail car for delivery to a facility in Texas at the site of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn ...

Nuclear waste becomes clean energy as Jefferson Lab's particle accelerators reduce storage time by 99.7% while generating electricity for the grid.

Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes.

Citizens groups opposed to a proposed underground storage site for spent nuclear-fuel rods near Ignace say they're heartened by the level of push-back against the project. A federal agency reviewing ...

OPINION: Fifty years ago, California passed a moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants. It's time to rethink that ban.

Potential impacts on ground-water, tourism, mental health, as well as the prospect of truck crashes involving radioactive materials, are among a myriad of concerns being formally raised in response to ...

"We do not know what their next step is." Officials spark backlash with controversial nuclear waste plan: 'This is a message to all of us' first appeared on The Cool Down.