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RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Site recently completed a transfer of the first batch of radioactive capsules from underwater ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

The first step toward moving the casks to safer storage was modifying WESF’s aged ventilation system and filling six of its aged ventilation system and filling six of its contaminated hot cells with ...

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Dry casks sit at the site of the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in southwest Michigan. Indiana gets some of its energy from the D.C. Cook nuclear plant just a few miles south of Palisades.

Xcel Energy says it needs to store far more nuclear waste at its Prairie Island facility to extend the plant’s life by 20 years, as it has proposed in its long-range plan. Keeping the plant’s two ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...