Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

Does Fusion produce radioactive nuclear waste the same way fission does? Nuclear fission power plants have the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei; some of these are radioactive for millions of ...

A new report by the feds says cleanup at the Hanford site will take until 2086, with other work needed until 2100.

Unlike traditional fossil fuels, nuclear fusion leaves behind no harmful emissions or toxic waste. However, achieving net energy gain from fusion – producing more power than the process consumes ...

Shorter-Lived Waste: Fusion waste is considerably less hazardous and has a shorter half-life than the waste generated by fission reactors. There are still some key hurdles that need to be overcome ...

Nuclear fusion has been heralded as the “holy grail of clean energy” for its ability to produce energy without requiring any fossil fuels, or leaving behind hazardous waste. In order to ...

A company called Interim Storage Partners wants to eventually bring about half of the nation’s growing, problematic stockpile of high-level nuclear waste to an existing toxic waste site in rural ...