The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.

For decades, there have been fears that radiation from power stations can cause cancer, with some evidence showing clusters ...

The thorniest issue is the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. SONGS officials say that it’s stored safely in sealed ...

Some see the high court’s decision in case against the state of Texas as a promising sign, but significant hurdles remain.

A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania nearly 50 years ago pushed Gene Stilp into a life of activism, ...

A self-taught expert, he spent decades working in both nonprofits and the government to expose problems in the production of ...

The decision is the latest chapter in the decadeslong battle over what to do with the waste generated by the nation's nuclear ...

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

Michigan's Palisades plant is planning to turn on again this fall after Democrats and Republicans got behind the project — ...

Nuclear energy continues to be a topic of interest among state lawmakers as the Missouri House of Representatives Utilities ...

The 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act established a permanent repository for nuclear power plant waste, which is still considered hazardous for thousands of years. USA Today contributed to this story.