Nuclear waste remains toxic for thousands of years. How do you build a storage facility that will keep it safely buried for millennia? It is a chilly day early in the summer. But 1,500ft (450m ...

Russia is working on nuclear-powered submarines to transport LNG from the Arctic to Asia. A submarine will increase safety compared with surface carriers and pipelines.

Nuclear fission produces radioactive waste, which can be dangerous and must be stored safely - potentially for hundreds of years. The waste produced by nuclear fusion is less radioactive and ...

Anna King / Northwest News Network Eighty years ago this September, the first industrial nuclear ... A pipe goes from that tank farm Subramanian described to an enormous waste treatment plant ...

Some have experienced costly safety- and age-related problems. All of them face unresolved questions around nuclear waste. But the low-carbon electricity provided by existing nuclear power plants is ...

However, the major bugbear of the technology has always been the problem of waste. Many of the byproducts from the operation of nuclear plants are radioactive, and remain so for thousands of years.

The ongoing assessment of areas to host a final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants raises many questions about whether it can really identify suitable ...

Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co. will shut a nuclear reactor after finding a “tiny” hole in a pipeline, threatening to increase fossil fuel requirements to fill any electricity shortfall.

a pipeline fire erupted in Deer Park sparking questions about pipeline safety not just on land, but underwater. Houston is the energy capital of the world and is home to one of the country's ...

The government has been struggling to find a municipality willing to host the final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. It is offering up to 2 billion ...