The downside of nuclear power is, of course, nuclear waste. But there are a lot of myths around nuclear waste, and uses for ...

A transport of four containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from abroad travelled through Germany for the first ...

This is one of several misconceptions about nuclear energy: America’s nuclear waste is not buried in a mountain or tucked at the bottom of a deep, rocky cavern. It is sealed away in coffin-like ...

In the 1980s, British Rail crashed one of its trains into a nuclear fuel flask at 100 mph in the name of science ...

U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) and U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Twp.) last week led a letter to the authors of the ...

Construction of a radioactive waste mound near the Ottawa River was challenged in federal court last week. The contentious project would allow Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to permanently ...

NASA scientists have uncovered the long-hidden Camp Century, a Cold War-era nuclear base buried beneath Greenland’s ice sheet ...

An elevator rattles down about 1km below ground in five minutes to reach Germany’s nuclear necropolis, a future repository set to entomb much of its radioactive waste. At the bottom, a jeep ride takes ...

An elevator rattles down about a kilometre (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.