These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

Traditional commercial reactors have nuclear waste that is slightly used rods and bundles. Not particularly because there is, and always will be, such a small volume of nuclear waste, no matter what ...

Transatomic, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff is developing a nuclear reactor designed to overcome the major barriers to nuclear power. For the anti-nuclear folks the design offers to ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally printed in the December 2005 issue of Scientific American magazine. Despite long-standing public concern about the safety of nuclear energy, more and more ...

Undeniably, ambitions for a nuclear renaissance are thriving. The UK is building its first nuclear power station in 30 years, France plans a new fleet of 14 reactors and, in total worldwide, 100 new ...

The U.K. is grappling with how to get rid of weapons-grade plutonium and may employ a novel reactor design to consume it The U.K. has nearly 100 metric tons of plutonium—dubbed "the element from hell" ...