The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on ...

A recently passed resolution by San Diego County seeks partnerships with national labs and companies to reprocess the waste ...

For decades, the world has grappled with how to safely and permanently dispose of vast amounts of highly radioactive waste from fission reactors. Now, a bold solution has emerged that could turn this ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion — a ...

But with reactors expected to use new forms of fuel and to produce more and different kinds of waste, the United States still hasn’t come up with a plan for the nuclear byproducts reactors have ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a new reactor that converts natural gas (a common energy source ...