Nuclear power producers want to put spent fuel rods below ground near Ignace, but some grassroots groups continue to oppose ...

Spent fuel rods in storage continue to grow less radioactive, but the process is slow. About 40% of the radioactivity comes ...

The design and the technological, economic and material problems of safe spent fuel storage will remain a focus of attention, with particular emphasis on dry storage technology, rod consolidation and ...

which measures the gamma radiation emitted by spent nuclear fuel. Nuclear fuel consists of rods, a few meters long and containing uranium, which are gathered into an assembly to act as a fuel element.

Finland will soon start operating a deep geological waste repository for spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants, and few critics can be found. A visit to the Onkalo artificial cave system.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Construction crews in New Taipei broke ground on a facility that will be used to store spent nuclear fuel rods from the Kuosheng Nuclear reactor decommissioned in 2023. The dry ...