As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

This question has long been nuclear energy’s Achilles’ heel, fueling public opposition and stifling a uniquely beneficial clean energy resource. Opponents frame nuclear waste management as a technical ...

Debra Kahn is the editor of POLITICO's California Climate newsletter and author of Currents, a reported column on the conversations, conflicts and characters animating the energy, environment and ...

Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has made it clear that the nuclear restart is part of the answer to Japan’s energy uncertainty, ...

Reprocessing promises to recycle nuclear waste, but it fails on technology, cost, security, and waste management—and distracts from the nuclear technologies that actually work.

The world is facing a growing shortage of uranium, the essential fuel for nuclear power plants. The US is heavily reliant on Russia and its allies for enriched uranium, creating geopolitical risks.

Effective nuclear waste management is a critical global challenge, particularly for countries like the UK looking to expand their nuclear power sectors. The UK has a substantial amount of existing ...

What is perhaps the only thing more frustrating than not having a nearly limitless source of safe, clean energy? Having a nearly limitless source of safe, clean energy — and not being allowed to use ...

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republicans and Democrats Finally Agree on Nuclear. It’s the Industry That’s the Problem. Nuclear power is a political winner — ...