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 ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

Finland is on the verge of switching on what could become one of the most consequential infrastructure projects in the history of nuclear energy, a permanent underground repository designed to store ...

2011 was a scary year for nuclear reactor sites. The summer floods threatened to encroach on reactors in Nebraska and Iowa, an earthquake and a hurricane happened in quick secession to rattle and ...

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 ...

For decades, the world has grappled with how to safely and permanently dispose of vast amounts of highly radioactive waste from fission reactors. Now, a bold solution has emerged that could turn this ...

In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to a Department of Energy facility — currently ...

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 ...

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 ...