New Atlas takes a look at the basics ... Just 500 rem/hour is enough to kill a human being. Unlike many non-nuclear waste products like arsenic or asbestos, nuclear waste changes over time ...

At that time, the company operated the Zion Nuclear Power Station, the second-largest nuclear energy producing plan ...

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, ...

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The "MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste" project will use novel ...

But I do think nuclear waste is a problem. And more reactors mean more spent fuel that needs to be managed, more dry casks spread across the country, and more armed guards on patrol like those in ...

In deep, astonishingly clear, blue-lit ponds some 40m (130ft) beneath the Swedish countryside, lies decades worth of high-level nuclear ... radiation. Waste can be kept like this for decades.

Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? No, says Prof. Kristina Kvashnina of the Helmholtz-Zentrum-Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). With the aid of new EU funding ...

says a nuclear facility would "blight" the area Campaigners opposed to plans for a nuclear waste disposal site on the Lincolnshire coast say it could be "disastrous" for the seaside economy.

The big lesson for lawmakers mulling nuclear waste legislation is beware the federal government’s nuclear waste schemes, Steff Kessler opines.

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The "MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste" project will use ...

For nuclear waste, like so-called “forever chemicals”, never really dies. Peter Dutton claimed the nuclear waste from a small reactor each year would fit in a Coke can.Credit: Marija Ercogovac ...