The Trump Administration has begun pushing for the expansion of U.S. nuclear power, driven in part by the growing electricity demands of AI data centers. The White House has framed the initiative as ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels about the use of vitrification to safely store nuclear waste at a former weapons site in ...

For decades, the most radioactive category of low-level waste in the U.S. has had a disposal plan that exists only on paper: ...

Researchers in the UK have found that crushed concrete from decommissioned nuclear sites can ...

Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste deposit at the Forsmark Spent Fuel Repository, designed to securely store ...

OLKILUOTO, Finland (AP) — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at about minus 430 meters (1,411 feet),” muttered ...

Tennessee’s leaders are weighing a plan that could mean more nuclear waste is stored in the Volunteer State. State lawmakers might ask Gov. Bill Lee to answer a federal request for information about ...

The core module being lowered at China's Linglong One, the world's first commercial SMR, installed in 2023 in Changjiang, China. Holtec International has shuttered their plans to store nuclear waste ...

KDKA-TV Investigator Andy Sheehan began his broadcast journalism career in September 1992, when he joined KDKA after reporting for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nine years. Andy's forte is the ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Jade Hindman. On today's show , we'll tell you about plans for San Onofre spent nuclear waste. This is KPBS Midday Edition. Connecting our communities through ...

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 ...

OLKILUOTO, Finland — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. "We are now at about minus 430 meters (1,411 feet)," muttered ...