ST. LOUIS — After years of reporting the radioactive waste in the St. Louis region, we go back to where it all began. "Back in World War II, there was an arms race between the United States and ...

Global waste challenge: MIT researchers compared U.S., French, and filtration-based strategies for managing iodine-129, a radioactive isotope with a 15.7 million-year half-life. Release levels vary: ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

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 ...

Hanford moves 1st radioactive capsules from underwater storage. The capsules could break and release radiation in a severe earthquake. Dry storage should be safer and reduces maintenance and ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

The problem of nuclear reactor waste will have to be resolved as nuclear energy becomes more frequently adopted as the world’s source of power. No one is pro nuclear waste. Simply, nuclear waste is a ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...