Lawyers were arguing before the Supreme Court this month over permitting facilities to handle temporary nuclear waste storage when Justice Neil M. Gorsuch pointed to the skunk in the room. That would ...

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 ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste is more ...

Sam Brinton is working to implement the administration’s vision for interim nuclear waste storage sites. The challenges have been both personal and professional. Sam Brinton may have, by some measures ...

Nuclear power is key to the United States’ plans to satisfy the nation’s growing energy needs. But there’s an unresolved problem: the waste it produces. Despite plans for an ambitious new generation ...

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 ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Throughout the past century, nuclear technology has become a core fascination of the scientific world. Numerous countries have explored its potential and implemented it in medicine, energy, and, ...

“Regardless of whether you are for or against nuclear power, and no matter what you think of nuclear weapons, the radioactive waste is already here, and we have to deal with it.” That’s Gerald S.

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.