Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

A 1987 federal law named Yucca Mountain, in Nevada , as a permanent disposal site for nuclear ... A look inside a cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel rods. Waste from electricity generation ...

However, in terms of critical issues, such as the advancing age of these plants, the costs needed to extend their service life, the looming threat of earthquakes, as well as contentious storage ...

Falling into a spent nuclear fuel pool is a deadly scenario; understand the science behind the danger.

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste in the U.S. will continue, probably for many ...

A March 28 article in the Craig Press, reprinted on the front page of the Steamboat Pilot & Today, reported on a Craig City ...

No matter the outcome, the decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose ... of fuel rods are about 12 to 16 feet long and about 5 to 8 inches in diameter. In a nuclear reactor ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has said that if the radioactive fuel rods are transported by truck in specialized containers, “it would mean two to three shipments a day ...

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look ...