There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

Japan's government has asked permission for a survey to be conducted on an island in the Pacific Ocean to choose a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.

The government will seek permission to begin assessing Minami-Torishima island in Tokyo's Ogasawara village as a candidate for a final disposal site of high-level nuclear waste from nuclear power ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday asked a Tokyo municipality for consent to conduct a survey to determine the suitability of ...

The island is surrounded by a coral atoll and is only 0.6 miles wide. Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: where will all of the radioactive ...

Non-fuel radioactive waste is loaded into a rail car for delivery to a facility in Texas at the site of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn ...

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 ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul says a new nuclear power plant would help the state meet rising electricity demand. Residents are worried ...

Nuclear energy is hot and everyone wants a piece of the action. President Donald Trump has announced his vision to quadruple America’s nuclear capacity by 2050, and 33 countries signed a declaration ...

OPINION: Fifty years ago, California passed a moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants. It's time to rethink that ban.