Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving ...

LACEY -- Concrete and metal storage casks that hold decades worth of highly radioactive, used fuel rods from the former Oyster Creek nuclear plant can be taxed, New Jersey's Tax Court ruled this week.

South Carolina leaders have discussed the idea of discharging high-level waste in "boreholes'' that would run deep underground ...

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Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

HAYDEN, Colo — For several years now, nuclear power has been trying to make a comeback in the U.S. The Biden administration liked nuclear's low carbon footprint, and President Trump has cited nuclear ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...