WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion — a ...

A Texas power developer is proposing to use repurposed retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and ...

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

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...

The troublesome and so far unsolved problem of nuclear waste storage may derail promising "new" nuclear technologies.

PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The introduction of six new French nuclear reactors would moderately increase radioactive waste, but would be manageable by adapting waste storage projects, the National ...

What if the high level nuclear waste generated by nuclear power plants could fuel a circular economy in the energy sector? Fast neutron reactors operating in a closed fuel cycle could make that happen ...

Anti-nuke activists are stirring from a long slumber, reanimated by Gov. Greg Abbott asking the Legislature to help fund new nuclear power plants across the state. Advocates are promising smaller, ...

This study responds to a congressional mandate in the FY2020 Appropriations Act's Conference Report in the subsection titled “Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition R&D," which calls for the Academies to ...

But with reactors expected to use new forms of fuel and to produce more and different kinds of waste, the United States still hasn’t come up with a plan for the nuclear byproducts reactors have ...