The latest flashpoint, which hits the Supreme Court on Wednesday, involves a proposed storage site in West Texas. ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

The team tested the battery prototype with cesium-137 and cobalt-60, common radioactive byproducts of nuclear reactors. Using ...

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric ...

The Supreme Court will decide a high-stakes dispute over the storage of highly toxic nuclear waste at privately run U.S.

Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department ...

Tons of radioactive refuse go into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor ...

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license ...

The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in ...