The UK is expected to accrue enough waste to fill four Wembley Stadiums Jonathan Leake is the Telegraph's Energy Editor. He has previously worked for other publications covering science, environment ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

Members of both parties hope the administration will back up its “Make American Healthy Again” slogan with new support for long-stalled legislation. Lawmakers and advocates working to secure ...

The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste is more important than ever, because the world is going through something of a nuclear renaissance. After years of fear about nuclear power plant safety ...

If you think of nuclear energy, you may be picturing submerged nuclear waste bathed in eerie blue light. That light has a ...

The United States Supreme Court's ruling on Nuclear Regulatory Commission vs. Texas will determine how nuclear waste is treated as nuclear energy demand spikes. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of ...

Eighty years ago this September, the first industrial nuclear reactor went online near Richland, Washington, on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The plutonium refined at the ...

Finland's Posiva is on the verge of receiving an operating license for the world's first permanent nuclear waste disposal facility, built 400 meters underground in 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock at a ...

The nuclear energy sector is experiencing a revival, driven by factors such as increased energy demand and support from governments and tech companies. Microreactors, a new form of nuclear technology, ...