And there is plenty of nuclear waste to go around. Hatchett says there are 1.2 million metric tons globally, with 700,000 metric tons in the U.S. alone (that's about 1.5 billion pounds).

Nuclear waste being transformed into promising cancer treatment at former Manhattan Project site Oak Ridge National Laboratory extracts rare Thorium-229 for targeted therapy that could hit market ...

SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns as 123 canisters of spent nuclear ...

A place to perhaps store at least some of the 3.55 million pounds of waste sitting at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station remains in play after a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court — but ...

The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns as 123 canisters of spent nuclear fuel are stored underground near the … ...

UNLV researchers are on the cutting edge of techniques that can reduce the amount of waste left over from the process of creating nuclear fuel and weapons by rendering those toxic waste products ...

Scientists conduct research on nuclear waste, exploring the potential to turn it into a cure for cancer at Oak Ridge, the former headquarters of the Manhattan Project.

The study's release comes shortly after passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" which contained a little-known provision to help people sickened by exposure to nuclear waste in Missouri and ...

The nuclear powers are modernizing their arsenals, and that is a heavy expense for citizens to carry. The morning of July 16, 1945, unleashed a force so powerful it could destroy civilization.

President Donald Trump dismissed all but one of the members of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, diminishing oversight over the country’s long-term spent nuclear fuel storage program.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.

In 60,000 years, nuclear waste will still have 12 percent of the radioactivity it does today. Anyone have any idea how long 60,000 years is? — America is 200 years old. — English as we know it is ...