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Used nuclear fuel is responsibly managed to protect people and the environment, using well-established and proven industrial methods and technologies.

There is revival of interest in small and simpler units for generating electricity from nuclear power, and for process heat. This interest in smaller nuclear power reactors is driven both by a desire to reduce the impact of capital costs and to provide power away from large g...

Environmental and health consequences of electricity generation are important issues, alongside the affordability of the power which is produced.

Using nuclear energy has numerous sustainability advantages relative to available alternatives. By expanding its use, modern and affordable energy can be provided to all who currently lack access, whilst reducing human impact on the natural environment, and ensuring that the ...

Using nuclear energy has numerous sustainability advantages relative to available alternatives. By expanding its use, modern and affordable energy can be provided to all who currently lack access, whilst reducing human impact on the natural environment, and ensuring that the ...

The Japanese government has adopted a plan to extend the operation of existing nuclear power reactors and replace aging facilities with new advanced ones.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has welcomed the release by Russian forces of Ihor Murashov, the director general of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. He had earlier warned his detention was "detrimental to nuclear safety an...

The USA and Russia have investigated and trialled the use of nuclear explosions for civil engineering purposes, though only one significant construction resulted: a dam in Kazakhstan. Some 150 experiments spanned 1957-75 in the USA and 1965-89 in the USSR.

Most countries participate in international initiatives designed to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The international safeguards system has since 1970 successfully prevented the diversion of fissile materials into weapons.

Synroc is basically a ceramic made from several natural minerals which together incorporate into their crystal structures nearly all of the elements present in high level radioactive waste. Recent developments are of specialised forms to immobilise plutonium, and of composite...