Fourteen years since one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Japan is getting creative in the effort to convince people that the contaminated soil is safe enough to be recycled. reading time 2 ...

Japan has had similar problems ... at a time when the U.S. is growing ever more desperate for solutions to its power crunch and its nuclear waste problem. Recycling can’t turn all of the waste into ...

FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling ...

Nuclear power is not worth the impact or the risk. Nuclear reactors produce toxic waste that can remain radioactive for tens ...

Temporary storage facilities for radioactive waste in Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Olivier Evrard, J. Patrick Laceby, and Atsushi Nakao The government of Japan ...

Nuclear recycling reduces spent fuel volume and half-life and creates a vital new energy resource. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, more than 90% of potential energy remains in spent ...

It was at an 18th century Georgian manor house outside London that Japanese lawmaker Rui Matsukawa began to have serious doubts about America’s commitment to defending her country. Matsukawa, a former ...

If there was one thing that seemed certain in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in 2011—the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl—it was that nuclear power in Japan and the rest of the world ...

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz introduced bipartisan legislation Thursday that would require the Department of Energy (DOE) ...

Today, we store nuclear waste at 121 nuclear plant sites in 39 states. About one-quarter of this waste is stored in dry casks. The remainder is stored in wet pools — like at Japan’s Fukushima site.

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

The long-awaited development is a key step in cleaning up the nation’s most polluted nuclear waste site. Construction on the Hanford ... to support the Allied effort to defeat Nazi Germany and Japan ...