Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...

Dozens of other U.S. nuclear plants are in the same situation. The used fuel is called “spent” and not “waste,” because the ...

U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington has joined U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in advocating against a nuclear waste storage facility in Andrews ...

However, the 200 tons account for only about 5 percent of all spent nuclear fuel at Kansai Electric's Takahama, Mihama and Oi nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture. Mori acknowledged that the ...

Both reactors on the Akademik Lomonosov have reloaded the uranium fuel elements for the first time since the floating nuclear ...