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.

In the USA, confectionary distribution company Candy Dynamics has been left with a sour taste in its mouth after it issued a voluntary recall of one its Toxic Waste brands on 13 January. The Nuclear ...

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...