The global food system creates a lot of waste. Food gets lost during harvest and shipping, grub spoils before it gets eaten, and leftovers languish in our refrigerators. But just because that’s the ...

WASHINGTON — Mounting opposition to proposed nuclear waste storage sites in Texas and New Mexico has kept Yucca Mountain in the national debate over what to do with the growing stockpile of ...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday night signed a bill into law ...

WASHINGTON — As lawmakers consider temporary sites for nuclear waste storage, two locations in New Mexico and Texas face headwinds that could pressure Congress to revive licensing hearings on the ...

Warning signs: a recent study suggests that we need to rethink plans for the long-term storage of nuclear waste. (Courtesy: iStock) An accelerated corrosion process in materials proposed for use in ...

The two nuclear reactors at FPL Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Homestead, Florida. (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON ...

The last of 73 canisters of nuclear waste is lowered into its enclosure Friday at a dry storage facility at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Southern California Edison) It took 32 months, ...

The Netherlands' centralized radioactive waste processing and storage facility has agreed to help local museums store their artefacts and works of art in its unused storage space for up to 100 years.

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

The good news — from the standpoint of Southern Californians who want nuclear waste removed from San Onofre’s bluff — is that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a license allowing ...

The interim storage of contaminated soil and other wastes generated by decontamination efforts at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant and surrounding area will begin in March, the environment ...

The potential for moving stranded nuclear waste off San Onofre’s coast — and away from scores of other nuclear power plants nationwide — took a step forward in July when the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ...