Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades.

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(Courtesy: R Cao) Scientists in the US have developed a new type of photovoltaic battery that runs on the energy given off by nuclear waste. The battery uses a scintillator crystal to transform the ...

Texas will determine ... More how nuclear waste is treated as nuclear energy demand spikes. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Created during an era of ...

The government must face up to the fact that there is no easy solution to the disposal of nuclear waste that will continue to be generated from nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Waste Management ...

After use, nuclear fuel becomes strongly radiating and dangerous waste. It contains a large amount of uranium and plutonium, which are building blocks for nuclear weapons. All these materials must be ...

Finland will soon start operating a deep geological waste repository for spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants, and few critics can be found. A visit to the Onkalo artificial cave system.

Sellafield, in Cumbria, is the "temporary home to the vast majority of the UK's radioactive nuclear waste", said the BBC, "as well as the world's largest stockpile of plutonium". It's stuck there ...

Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term. Erika Benke visits the Onkalo site to find out more. Video by Erika Benke ...