As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

Radioactive waste and contamination, like that created during the Manhattan Project’s launch of the world’s first nuclear ...

The Trump administration is planning to give surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs to new nuclear startup companies.

The first dismantling of a commercial reactor in Japan has started, ushering in a new period of decommissioning but with the ...

On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants — AKA microreactors — to proliferate across the state. On Monday, the state Assembly ...

A battery roughly the size of a sugar cube, with no moving parts and no need for recharging, just produced electricity from ...

Engineers have long sought ways to fabricate three-dimensional structures from flat stock materials without ...

The UK is expected to accrue enough waste to fill four Wembley Stadiums Jonathan Leake is the Telegraph's Energy Editor. He has previously worked for other publications covering science, environment ...

This thunderclap — so obvious, yet so elusive — comes in a new bipartisan plan penned by an esteemed group of nuclear experts, including Allison Macfarlane, erstwhile chair of the U.S. Nuclear ...

New concepts for advanced reactors are thriving, and boosted by new government funding, but there are serious detriments to commercial success.

One of the two spent fuel pools at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, where waste is stored before being transferred to casks kept on site. The federal government has yet to develop a permanent ...