Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it but what exactly is it and why is it so important? How big is the problem and is it a problem without a solution? New Atlas takes a look at the basics.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that the depth of a scrape a on a can of nuclear waste is about technology and skepticism … and ...

DOE has the ability to do something that is safer," said Nathan Anderson, director for natural resources and environment at GAO.

What does nuclear waste actually look like? Sadly, it’s not the glowing green sludge that you’ve seen Homer Simpson spill from metal barrels at Springfield Power Plant.

After initially favoring diplomacy, US President Donald Trump resorted to an extraordinary use of force against Iran on ...

But nuclear energy brings plenty of risks: the waste it produces is dangerously radioactive, reactors are expensive and past accidents like those at Three Mile Island and Fukushima cast a shadow ...

Pictured is the NR-1 submarine, ported at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, March 3, 2013. (Courtesy photo by U.S. Army/Released) ...

While Posiva Oy looks like it may have the first functioning repository, ... Italy is considering 51 sites that could potentially be suitable to host a repository for nuclear waste storage.