Commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in the United States is stored at 74 nuclear ... than one nuclear reactor and multiple SNF pools and dry storage pads. The US SNF inventory currently consists of ...

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

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 ...

Sweden has begun constructing a nuclear waste repository to store radioactive waste deep underground near the Forsmark ...

This is a hands-on training course that will provide instruction on best practices for modeling and simulations with SCALE of nuclide inventories and decay heat in LWR spent nuclear ... inventory and ...

Sweden has initiated the construction of a repository for the long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in Söderviken, close to the Forsmark nuclear power plant. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste ...

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 ...

This webinar series focuses on nuclear back-end topics: decommissioning of nuclear facilities, management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, remediation of contaminated land and legacy sites ...

Hazardous work to remove all spent nuclear fuel from a reactor storage pool at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was finally completed Feb. 28, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. It marked ...