Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

Japan's Federation of Electric Power Companies has announced that a total of 400 tonnes of used nuclear fuel, instead of the ...

The current idea is to vitrify the plutonium – bake it into a ceramic glass, like material – and bury it 1000 metres below in a geological disposal facility (GDF). However, the UK currently possesses ...

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge ...

It remains to be seen whether the prefectural government will support the revised plans. Fukui has long called for spent ...

Is nuclear power or renewable energy the key to a zero-carbon future? Explore costs, risks, and global trends shaping the ...

A growing number of energy companies are looking to nuclear recycling as a way to address waste management concerns while ...

The move comes as Fukui Prefecture, home to several nuclear plants, urges Kansai Electric to address shrinking storage ...

This letter is in response to Daris Ramus’ letter in which he accuses me of misleading the public. He states that the Green New Deal is only a “resolution … not a bill, legislation or ...

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at what role nuclear energy has to play in a renewable energy ...

Photo: Scott Franz, KUNC CAÑON CITY, Colo. — For well over a decade, the U.S Department of Energy has been working to create one central location to temporarily store nuclear waste. Meanwhile, this ...