UNLV researchers are on the cutting edge of techniques that can reduce the amount of waste left over from the process of ...

Meanwhile, spent fuel continues to build up at nuclear facilities. More than 90,000 metric tons of high-level waste awaits disposal, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository site in southern Nevada has been a proposed long-term solution for spent nuclear fuel for decades. Nevada officials generally have fought the project ...

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., lashed out at nuclear lobbyists and their "unending source of money" for perpetuating "the big lie" that the Nevada dump was urgently needed.

The Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act is based on recommendations from the Department of Energy’s 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future and the 2017 consent-based siting report.

DOE points out that, over the past 30 years, there have been more than 2,700 shipments of spent nuclear fuel in the U.S., with a total distance traveled of more than 1.6 million miles. In the last ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. But the ...