In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to a Department of Energy facility — currently ...

Nuclear power is vital for U.S. energy security and decarbonization, however, more than 91,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel remain without a permanent storage solution. Reprocessing and recycling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The logo of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is shown on the podium at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Staion in Carlsbad ...

Long-flustered nuclear fuel cycle officials fear there could be another delay in the project. In a surprise to hardly anyone, ...

For decades, a third rail of US nuclear power policy has been reprocessing spent fuel and extracting the plutonium. The country has alternately supported and suspended reprocessing over the past ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on ...