“As the representative for the area in and around the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, I know how important it is to find a solution for our nation’s spent nuclear fuel,” said Rep ...

New Mexico's governor has signed legislation that calls for banning the storage of spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico, unless the state provides its consent first. Skip to main content.

Take a last look: Those iconic twin domes should be gone by mid-2027. “Final backfill” at what was once San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is slated for 2028. And the highly radioactive ...

The court’s written decision expressly did not give an opinion on the commission’s authority to issue the licenses under ...

Around 97 percent of spent fuel can be reused in certain types of nuclear reactors. High-level nuclear waste can be used in fast neutron reactors operating in a closed fuel cycle.

With the warhead supply depleting, the US has a second huge problem: developing a way to produce nuclear fuel, probably mostly from spent fuel, with the desired high concentration of uranium-235.

People “imagine it’s like the green drums of goo that Homer Simpson has,” said Paul Murray, the US Energy Department’s deputy assistant secretary focused on nuclear waste. The spent fuel ...

The Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license allowing a private company to store spent nuclear fuel away from a nuclear reactor. March 05, 2025 at 02:13 PM ...

Dublin, May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Recycling Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus on Product, Application, and Country Analysis- Analysis and ...

Re “We’re Thinking About Nuclear Waste All Wrong,” by Madison Hilly (Opinion guest essay, May 1): Ms. Hilly states that spent nuclear fuel is safe and should be “a chief selling point ...

Since the arrival of nuclear power in the 1950s, more than 400 reactors in 31 countries have produced about 430,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, and until now no one has developed a ...

“As the representative for the area in and around the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, I know how important it is to find a solution for our nation’s spent nuclear fuel,” said Rep ...