The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion — a ...

Nuclear power is among the cleanest energy sources on Earth, but the materials that fuel it can degrade during operation. A new international study may unlock safer, longer-lasting fuel for the next ...

This study responds to a congressional mandate in the FY2020 Appropriations Act's Conference Report in the subsection titled “Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition R&D," which calls for the Academies to ...

But with reactors expected to use new forms of fuel and to produce more and different kinds of waste, the United States still hasn’t come up with a plan for the nuclear byproducts reactors have ...

What if the high level nuclear waste generated by nuclear power plants could fuel a circular economy in the energy sector? Fast neutron reactors operating in a closed fuel cycle could make that happen ...

PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The introduction of six new French nuclear reactors would moderately increase radioactive waste, but would be manageable by adapting waste storage projects, the National ...

A Texas power developer is proposing to use repurposed retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and ...