A reprocessing facility is used for recycling nuclear fuel to help mitigate environmental concerns, but it can also be utilized to extract plutonium used to build nuclear weapons. "We will regard ...

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. The ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

President Ronald Reagan's administration decides to lift the ban on reprocessing used nuclear fuel. The Reagan administration went on to introduce a policy calling for the need for a high-level ...

As U.S. security commitments grow uncertain, some European voices revive the idea of independent nuclear deterrents.

The only independent nuclear force in Europe is France. Former president Charles De Gaulle had insisted on it in the early ...

The completion date for a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant here, a key component in the cycle policy, was pushed back for the 26th time. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd., the operator of the facility ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has designated ally South Korea a "sensitive" country, a spokesperson said on Friday, after the ...

In a surprise to hardly anyone, the "hopeful outlook" for completion in June of a spent fuel reprocessing plant, a key component in Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle project, was pushed back in late ...

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

France's Nuclear Policy Council - headed by President Emmanuel Macron - has agreed that a subsidised government loan should ...

A separate task force is looking into Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act (CLND Act) to address the concerns raised by ...