Experts want the responsibility for permanent disposal of nuclear waste in the hands of a nonprofit or similar corporate entity. Which is a nice way of saying the ...

The 3.6 million pounds of spent nuclear fuel stored at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) are a symptom of a national failure that has left nuclear waste stranded at more than 80 sites ...

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Five years down, about three more to go to complete the dismantlement of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. “When we started in 2020, we said it would be about eight years,” said Ron Pontes, ...

Everyone talks about nuclear waste like it’s an unsolvable apocalypse, but the truth is way more practical. The real problem ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...