Chinese scientists are leveraging americium, which has usually been written off as nuclear waste, as part of a reaction breakthrough that could ... "So the researchers embedded americium into a ...

The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste is more important than ever ... an abandoned hospital and began to handle the blue-glowing radioactive substance inside. 249 people were ...

The Canadian government's ongoing plan to permanently store 50,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste in the Great Lakes basin near Ontario has sparked bipartisan opposition from lawmakers in ...

She said the municipality expects to hear from the project’s proponent, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), but no date for that presentation has been set. There are only two more ...

the thought of swimming in an indoor pool at your local nuclear power plant probably gives us mental images of Homer Simpson eating glowing green donuts. Oklo assures us that it is entirely safe.

A northern Ontario First Nation has decided it is willing to continue with the process to potentially become host to a deep geological repository for Canada’s nuclear waste, leaving just one ...

This has made countries near Japan concerned about how the waste water could affect the ... radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant a green light in July after a two-year review ...

In the timelapse photo, city lights appear as glowing streaks on Earth, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) below the orbiting complex. Meanwhile, high activity from the sun sparked green northern ...

An elevator rattles down about a kilometer (3,000 feet) below ground in five minutes to reach Germany's nuclear necropolis, a future repository set to to entomb much of its radioactive waste. At the ...