Nuclear waste is spread across 94 different nuclear sites in the U.S. and has no permanent home. Big Tech is going to add more to the pile.

The possibility of lake water reaching the cask pads is very low. Although climate change is forcing nuclear plants along the ocean to assess the risk of sea level rise, the situation along the ...

The waste has accumulated in spent-fuel pools and dry casks intended for temporary storage since the U.S. nuclear industry ...

The transition of spent fuel from densely packed cooling pools to dry casks was described in a news release from DPS as a “safer, more secure” way of storage that mitigates risks of fires and ...

Dry storage of used fuel rods at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on Thursday, ... Casks containing the waste are vulnerable to wear and tear and degradation as they age.

The problem is the dry casks and the pools will not last forever. Maybe they'll last 100 years, maybe, maybe not. And if you don't have a more permanent solution to manage this material, it will ...

The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, has transferred all spent nuclear fuel to dry cask storage in a move towards decommissioning the plant, the New York State Department of ...

A blast on June 6, 2023, destroyed the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River in eastern Ukraine. The rupture lowered water levels in a reservoir upriver at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the ...

McIntyre said dry casks can last 100 years or more and are built to withstand natural disasters. But these casks weren’t meant to store nuclear waste permanently.

The dry cask storage employed at Three Mile Island - where spent fuel is housed in thick stainless-steel casks, which are in sealed inside above-ground concrete encasement - has become standard ...