CORDOVA -- When the Quad Cities Nuclear Generating station meets with its neighbors Saturday, officials will explain plans to store spent nuclear fuel in above-ground casks on its property. The ...

Oct 16 (Reuters) - The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, has transferred all spent nuclear fuel to dry cask storage in a move towards decommissioning the plant, the New York ...

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 ...

Each cask contains 68 fuel assemblies, meaning there are now 884 assemblies in dry cask storage. There are another 2,627 spent fuel assemblies in the pool in the reactor building and another 368 ...

BRATTLEBORO — When the 40-plus years worth of nuclear fuel used at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant finally leaves Vernon, it will be by rail. That was the assessment by officials from the U.S.

The nuclear crisis in Japan has laid bare an ever-growing problem for the United States — the enormous amounts of still-hot radioactive waste accumulating at commercial nuclear reactors in more than ...