The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with ...

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy have "launched a new radiochemical separation process at the Savannah River National Laboratory to recover rare isotopes from Mark-18A targets produced ...

Recent diplomatic reports indicate that Russia is actively marketing and offering nuclear power infrastructure to nations such as Serbia. While this might appear to be standard international trade on ...

Fusion energy, an emerging technology that backers hope will one day generate electricity without producing long-lived radioactive waste, got a path toward regulation on Thursday as the U.S. Nuclear ...

From the outside, it looks almost too unassuming: a perfect concrete disk, 377 feet (115) meters) wide, rising from the white ...

Nuclear fusion could produce almost boundless energy with zero emissions or waste, but is not yet viable on a large scale because of the cost and difficulty generating the right conditions.

The last CASTOR cask containing used nuclear fuel has been removed from the Brokdorf ...

Radioactive sources are important in cancer treatment and gamma radiography devices in industry and keeping them safe and secure is essential — from manufacture to disposal. The IAEA’s Guidance on the ...

One of the most formidable obstacles to exploiting the full potential of nuclear energy is the long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste that is generated by the burning of fuel in nuclear ...