A valuable isotope for cancer treatment is being extracted from nuclear waste at ORNL, preventing its loss forever. It's the ...

A 15-year agreement between the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and biotech firm Bicycle Therapeutics focuses on securing the medical isotope lead-212 from the UK's stockpile of reprocessed ...

Nuclear energy isn't exactly clean, with nuclear waste never exactly going away. But this inventive new process might help ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

The moment nuclear material is produced, processed or purified, it sets off a hidden countdown, marked by the half-life of ...