Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico ...

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

The DOGE cuts that keep coming, and Tuesday there was confusion about a nuclear waste facility in Carlsbad.Will the office ...

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday jumped into the decades-long dispute over what to do with thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste, as it considered a plan to store it above one of ...

Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S.

The second is whether the federal agency has the power to license such facilities away from reactor sites where the waste was generated. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission purports to allow a ...

A private company aims to build a nuclear waste storage facility in West Texas. Trains would likely carry the spent fuel ...

The Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday on the question of whether the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license private, temporary offsite storage of nuclear waste. In ...

However, nuclear power plants produce hazardous waste, and scientists are still searching for effective ways to manage this dangerous byproduct. What if we could do more than just store it—what ...

Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades.