Oklo Inc. OKLO is rethinking how nuclear energy is produced, and at the center of its strategy is fuel recycling. Unlike conventional reactors that only use about 5% of the energy content from nuclear ...

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Europe has been turning uranium into energy for over half a century. In the process, the continent has amassed vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. This radioactive material can take millions of years to ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Sealed in steel containers near the beach at San Onofre, scores of spent nuclear fuel rods ...

Nuclear fusion could produce almost boundless energy with zero emissions or waste, but is not yet viable on a large scale because of the cost and difficulty generating the right conditions.

The U.S. had debated its growing 90,000 metric ton stockpile of spent nuclear fuel for decades. This radioactive “waste” in temporary storage contains untapped energy, enough to power the nation for ...

A technology developed for solar energy has been adapted to selectively remove one of the most-difficult-to-remove elements in nuclear waste pools, making the storage of nuclear waste safer and ...

No, no, hell no, and no again! said Texas and its powerful oil industry, in a legal challenge to the federal government’s power to license privately-operated nuclear waste storage sites in the Lone ...

Over nearly five decades, nuclear waste has been treated as an intractable problem, locked in dry casks, relegated to repositories that are slow to materialize, and generally viewed as a costly ...

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 ...