The reboot highlights a dire problem for the country's nuclear program. Japan is running out of space to store spent nuclear ...

The UK is expected to accrue enough waste to fill four Wembley Stadiums Jonathan Leake is the Telegraph's Energy Editor. He has previously worked for other publications covering science, environment ...

Lawmakers worry the nation's permanent nuclear waste problem remains unaddressed as bills for new development pick up speed.

On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants — AKA microreactors — to proliferate across the state. On Monday, the state Assembly ...

Residents say rare cancers around Coldwater Creek aren’t a coincidence.

One of the two spent fuel pools at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, where waste is stored before being transferred to casks kept on site. The federal government has yet to develop a permanent ...

Radioactive waste and contamination, like that created during the Manhattan Project’s launch of the world’s first nuclear weapons program in 1942, is scattered across dozens of production and research ...

Russia and China can black out military satellites in seconds. A Latvian startup says nuclear-waste generators using 5x less fuel could keep satellites—and lunar bases—running. A satellite goes dark ...

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 ...

Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they still have some life?