While nuclear power has the potential to help cut humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels, scientists are still working on how to deal with its radioactive leftovers. The Thomas Jefferson National ...

Nearly 500 elementary school children in Texas play on fields where a whistleblower says he once spread tons of radioactive fracking waste — a noxious hell-brew he believes melted the bones in his own ...

“Buying uranium is suspiciously easy. It shows up in a UPS truck,” says Staff Sheehan, CEO and founder of Project Omega. “You can Google it.” He’s not speaking hypothetically. He’s explaining how his ...

State environmental regulators will also fine the Energy Department up to $16 million for exceeding safe groundwater standards near the nuclear lab. By Alicia Inez Guzmán Alicia Inez Guzmán reports on ...

FLORISSANT, Mo. — On Monday morning, the first home was officially demolished in the Cades Cove neighborhood in north St. Louis County. Six homes will be torn down to remove the radioactive waste ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY – Demolition is scheduled to begin Monday on six homes in Florissant after officials say the soil had been contaminated by radioactive waste from Coldwater Creek. The six homes are ...

The Trump Administration is trying to find a place in the US to store 100,000 tons of radioactive waste under the “Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses in the US” plan. So far, no state has stepped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A truck delivers a container to the low-level waste vaults at the Dounreay nuclear site in Dounreay, Scotland, Britain November 25 ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Uzbekistan's Atomic Energy Agency and Russia's TVEL have signed a memorandum of understanding relating to the development of a national radioactive waste management system. Uzbekistan's WWR-SM ...

The pool of water that currently stores capsules full of cesium and strontium at Hanford looks eerie and glows a faint electric blue. These 1,936 highly radioactive capsules store a whopping one-third ...