In the early 1980s, the United Kingdom launched an ambitious program to answer a critical question: what would happen if a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Castor container is positioned at Woerth railroad station. The nuclear waste inside consists of reprocessed fuel elements from ...

ATLANTA -- The U.S. government is looking for trains to haul radioactive waste from nuclear power plants to disposal sites. Too bad those trains have nowhere to go. Putting the cart before the horse, ...

A mid-century wave of nuclear optimism convinced engineers that locomotives could be the next everyday machine to go atomic, promising years of operation without refueling and a smaller carbon ...

A French anti-nuclear demonstrator was killed Sunday in eastern France when his leg was severed by a train carrying radioactive waste to Germany, police said.