Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

April 11 -- More than 1,500 radioactive devices have been stolen, lost or abandoned since 1997, and the federal government can only account for 660 of those devices, ABCNEWS has learned. Reports to ...

Seventh-grader Aiden McMillan is in the running for a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion.

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Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...