Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

The island is surrounded by a coral atoll and is only 0.6 miles wide. Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: where will all of the radioactive ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for ...

The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday asked a Tokyo municipality for consent to conduct a survey to determine the suitability of ...

A team of researchers has initiated a deep drilling project underneath a mountain in ...

Japan's government has asked permission for a survey to be conducted on an island in the Pacific Ocean to choose a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.

Malaysia’s government renewed Australian miner Lynas Rare Earths' operating license for 10 years but will require it to stop ...

Most nuclear energy is thermal. All that complex nuclear physics and chemistry serve merely to create steam that spins a turbine, the same as any combustion-based power plant does. But what if you ...

The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp ...

Stafford Sheehan’s new startup Project Omega is working with the U.S. government to turn nuclear waste into “unlimited energy." ...