Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

The presence of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste stored “temporarily” at the San Onofre nuclear power plant — which was ...

The two nuclear reactors at FPL Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Homestead, Florida. (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court Thursday, clearing the way for plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at a facility in West Texas. The 6-3 vote ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear ...

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

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. The ...

US nuclear waste policy is at a critical turning point. Mired in decades of disappointments and shortcomings, the monkey on nuclear power’s back is just weeks away from being freed—or being strapped ...

A draft report from the Blue Ribbon Commission said that the nuclear power crisis makes the need for a nuclear waste management program in the U.S. very important. The commission’s Draft Report to the ...

WEST ODESSA, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared a significant hurdle in a long-stalled plan to temporarily store high-level nuclear waste in Andrews County, Texas, and Lea County, New Mexico — ...

The City of Fort Smith released a statement on Facebook on Dec. 18 saying it was not interested or considered to be a site for nuclear waste. “Addressing recent concerns, the City of Fort Smith has ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution. The justices, ...