The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, has said that two specially designed and newly installed robots will need three years to remove 3,000 sandbags from the basements of the three destroyed ...

The agency noted that earlier staffing shortages led to "cost overruns, schedule delays, and accidents, including fires and ...

Finland just opened the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. See how the Onkalo site solves a 100,000-year ...

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As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

The first dismantling of a commercial reactor in Japan has started, ushering in a new period of decommissioning but with the ...

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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 ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

Belgium's ambitious MYRRHA research reactor project is on hold. See how this particle-accelerator-driven system could ...

The UK is expected to accrue enough waste to fill four Wembley Stadiums Jonathan Leake is the Telegraph's Energy Editor. He has previously worked for other publications covering science, environment ...