Untitled from Oregonian News on Vimeo. By SPENCER HEINZ I took a drive the other day to visit my spent fuel rods. Of course, they are not really mine. The power company owns them. Yet all of us ...

Spent fuel rods are placed in a steel canister typically capable of holding 32 fuel assemblies and the lid is welded in place. The canisters weigh up to 40 tons fully loaded.

The mood was tense in the White House Cabinet room on that summer day, almost exactly 31 years ago. President Bill Clinton ...

As Japan's post-quake nuclear crisis deepens, concerns have been raised about the dangers of spent fuel rods. The Unit 4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant caught fire earlier Tuesday ...

However, even if Yucca Mountain receives a green light from the government, it will not be ready to receive spent fuel rods before 2010 at the earliest. For Diablo Canyon, as at many other nuclear ...

Spent fuel rods in storage continue to grow less radioactive, but the process is slow. About 40 percent of the radioactivity comes from the element cesium-137, ...

COVERT, MI — Stacked in neat rows, concrete and steel nuclear waste casks look not unlike large soda cans. But rather than a tasty beverage, the canisters contain spent fuel rods filled with ...

This could prove to be a pivotal achievement in the advancement of nuclear technologies, not only in Utah but in the United ...

Irradiated fuel assemblies—essentially bundles of fuel rods with zirconium alloy cladding sheathing uranium dioxide fuel pellets—that have been removed from a nuclear reactor (spent fuel) generate a ...

Fuel transfer operations were interrupted in August 2018 after an incident in which a steel fuel canister containing roughly 50 tons of spent nuclear rods became wedged in its transport cask as it ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that the depth of a scrape a on a can of nuclear waste is about technology and skepticism … and ...

Spent fuel rods in storage continue to grow less radioactive, but the process is slow. About 40 percent of the radioactivity comes from the element cesium-137, ...