Experts want the responsibility for permanent disposal of nuclear waste in the hands of a nonprofit or similar corporate entity. Which is a nice way of saying the ...

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

No, no, hell no, and no again! said Texas and its powerful oil industry, in a legal challenge to the federal government’s power to license privately-operated nuclear waste storage sites in the Lone ...

Doomsday scenario: Terrorists commandeer a 747 and crash it into San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s dry waste storage pad. Are we all going to die? Well, yes, someday. But probably not from this.

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 ...

Nuclear is the most powerful and efficient energy source ever harnessed. A piece of uranium fuel the size of a golf ball ...

The problem of nuclear reactor waste will have to be resolved as nuclear energy becomes more frequently adopted as the world’s source of power. No one is pro nuclear waste. Simply, nuclear waste is a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. Remnants of the chemical processing ...