These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

A Rhode Island start-up is working to recycle spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power systems for the military ...

Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can ...

Experts are having a nuclear meltdown. Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the containment area has sprung a dangerous leak — which could snowball amid ...

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The ...

Visible cracks on the concrete cap of the Runit Dome, a Cold War era nuclear waste repository on Enewetak Atoll in the ...

On Runit Island in the Marshall Islands, a concrete lid sits low against the Pacific, close enough to the tide line that the ocean feels like part of the structure. In October 2017, video from the ...

The Swiss franc is brimming with strength, but how serious is the problem? To what extent do you think assisted suicide should be a legally available option to those who want to end their lives? Read ...

Iran crisis deepens, how Switzerland is adapting its “good offices” tradition in an era of rising conflict and competing ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has praised progress made by Poland in safely managing its radioactive ...