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

Discover the world's most radioactively contaminated sites from human activity, including Chernobyl, Fukushima, Hanford, and ...

As Japan continued to struggle ... were saying nice things about nuclear power, if only during efforts to pass a global warming bill. But inexpensive natural gas, uncertainty over the Yucca Mountain ...

The nuclear power industry is at the nexus of two major shifts in how humanity generates and consumes electricity. On the one hand, concern about the worst effects of climate change have spurred ...

Nearly 80 years of US nuclear waste is stuck in "temporary" storage sites. How big of a problem is that?

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 ...