Spent nuclear fuel usually cools for at least several years in a pool before it is transferred into either a vertical or horizontal dry storage system.

Troubled trail ahead for San Onofre’s spent nuclear fuel Trains carrying concrete rubble and steel leave weekly on troubled coastal rail route through San Clemente ...

US team develops scalable, safe nuclear fuel recycling using advanced tech to cut waste and boost energy recovery.

Known as Onkalo, it will receive spent fuel from Finland’s five nuclear reactors—three on the nearby island of Olkiluoto and two in Loviisa, in the southeast of the country.

As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are ...

The Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license allowing a private company to store spent nuclear fuel away from a nuclear reactor.

Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) crews recently completed a significant achievement by successfully transferring 40 spent nuclear ...

A federal court said the government’s nuclear power regulator overstepped its authority by granting licenses to a pair of proposed short-term storage facilities for the country’s spent nuclear fuel ...

Yesterday, the Idaho Cleanup Project crews successfully transferred about 40 spent nuclear fuel baskets into safer, long term ...

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 ...

Nuclear power is facing numerous challenges, including uranium shortages, geopolitical risks, and the economic and environmental hurdles of spent fuel recycling.