Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it all ...

A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Around ...

(CBS News Texas) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against the state of Texas and a group of landowners who challenged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a private company’s plan to ...

The Board of Supervisors agreed to support research and development aimed at recycling hundreds of tons of spent nuclear fuel ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

Dry canister storage of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (File photo courtesy of Southern California Edison) Sept. 30, 2025, may mark the day communities in Southern ...

Doomsday scenario: Terrorists commandeer a 747 and crash it into San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s dry waste storage pad. Are we all going to die? Well, yes, someday. But probably not from this.

The Trump administration pushes nuclear power center stage. Vermont’s congressional delegation works to help communities storing the radioactive fuel left behind.

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

No, no, hell no, and no again! said Texas and its powerful oil industry, in a legal challenge to the federal government’s power to license privately-operated nuclear waste storage sites in the Lone ...