nuclear waste

**Three Mile Island Reopening: Powering Microsoft's AI Ambitions with Nuclear Energy In a significant development for both the nuclear energy sector and the tech industry, Three Mile Island, the site of the most infamous nuclear accident in U.S. history, is set to reopen. After its 2019 closure...

On Monday a senior Department of Energy official said that the long-term nuclear storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada was no longer a viable option The project was stated in 2002 and President Obama withdrew funding for it in 2010. I wonder how much that cost us taxpayers and now...

Japan can avoid turning the affected Fukushima Prefecture into a dead zone by immediately applying chemicals and planting radiation-absorbing plants at the contaminated soil, scientists said. Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan's crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as...

Fukushima No. 1 eyed as site for nuke fuel graveyard Bloomberg The Atomic Energy Society of Japan is discussing a plan to make the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station. Building a repository would cost several trillion yen, Muneo...

WASHINGTON — A commission created to help resolve the impasse over the disposal of the nation’s nuclear waste will propose establishing one or more sites where used reactor fuel could be stored in steel and concrete structures on the earth’s surface for decades, members of the commission said...

Link Removed - Invalid URL after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake has raised questions over the option of using nuclear power to generate electricity. The disaster has prompted an outpouring of fierce opposition to nuclear energy, and many states have begun weighing their nuclear futures. However...