The transition of spent fuel from densely packed cooling pools to dry casks was described in a news release from DPS as a “safer, more secure” way of storage that mitigates risks of fires and ...

(Dry casks can store 10 to 15 tons of spent fuel assemblies, so each cask contains a far lower amount of radioactive material than a storage pool.) Reducing the total inventories of spent fuel ...

Casks used to store spent nuclear fuel sit on a cement pad behind a fence at the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant on April 2, 2024. Neil Blake | MLive.com.

Included in the 60-cask estimate is a cask containing highly radioactive waste from the decommissioning process. Corey Daniels, the NorthStar decommissioning manager, told the group that one, not two, ...

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 ...

Spent fuel storage casks behind a warning sign at the Pilgrim Nuclear plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, are photographed in May of 2015. ...

Fuel for Thought… | May 2, 2025. Season 53 Episode 26 | 28m 50s Video has Closed Captions | CC. We discuss the state’s new agreement to bring a DOE research cask of spent nuclear fuel to INL.