Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

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

The Atlantic Council is a Washington-based think tank on international affairs ... spent nuclear fuel on the back end. High-level nuclear waste remains extremely radioactive for tens of thousands ...

Researchers may have found a way to create a nuclear waste battery that could theoretically run for decades without needing to recharge.

Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities can take decades ... according to Ember, an energy think tank. Wind and solar made up 17 percent of U.S. electricity last year; coal contributed a ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Carved out of an ancient salt formation about half a mile (800 meters) deep, the subterranean landfill received its first shipment of radioactive waste in 1999. The idea is that the shifting salt ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court wrestled with whether to move forward with plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at a site ...

PHOENIX—— The Department of Energy could ultimately solidify between 20 million and 30 million gallons of lower-level radioactive liquid waste at the ...