Columnist Teri Sforza writes that the depth of a scrape a on a can of nuclear waste is about technology and skepticism … and potentially the health of Southern California ...

A remote area of Kazakhstan was once home to nearly a quarter of the world’s nuclear testing. The impact on its inhabitants has been devastating. ByAlexandra Genova Photographs byPhil Hatcher ...

Downtown Los Angeles businesses are hoping customers will return after Mayor Karen Bass lifted a curfew she had imposed last week to prevent vandalism and break-ins ...

Karen Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. The jury convicted her of ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

SKB expects the nuclear industry to cover the $1.08 billion cost of the repository. An anticipated 12,000 tonnes of nuclear waste could be stored in rock in the repository at a depth of 500 metres.

New York will get a new plant after his costly move to close an old one.

US team develops scalable, safe nuclear fuel recycling using advanced tech to cut waste and boost energy recovery.

The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.

The U.S.’s only nuclear waste disposal site equipped to handle transuranic materials is facing up to $14.2 million in ...

The 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act established a permanent repository for nuclear power plant waste, which is still considered hazardous for thousands of years. USA Today contributed to this story.

The Nuclear Waste Administration Act would essentially yank responsibility from the Department of Energy (which has spent more than $10 billion on moribund Yucca Mountain, once seen as a potential ...