Large spent nuclear fuel storage casks that shifted during a 2011 earthquake in Virginia will remain where they are. Dominion Virginia Power will not be required to move the casks back to their ...

Commercial nuclear fuel rods are unloaded from a cask inside Idaho National Laboratory’s Hot Fuel Examination Facility hot cell in this file photo. (Courtesy of Idaho National Laboratory) Officials ...

Behind caution tape, a radiation protection technician holds a clicking instrument. Workers at the Callaway Nuclear Plant in Steedman, Mo., are doing something that only happens every few years — they ...

The State of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy agreed to a “targeted waiver” of the 1995 Settlement Agreement this week in order for Idaho National Laboratory to research a high burnup nuclear ...

Some of the heaviest and most troublesome radioactive material to be removed from the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has only one exit – the imperiled railroad corridor north ...

We discuss the state’s new agreement to bring a DOE research cask of spent nuclear fuel to INL. Three decades after a monumental agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy over radioactive waste and ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

VERNON — A consultant hired by the U.S. Department of Energy has come up with preliminary plans for moving the spent nuclear fuel currently stored at the Vermont Yankee site in Vernon to an interim ...