ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures ...

While last week’s discussion in Plymouth of the merits and drawbacks of dry-cask storage at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant was certainly civil, it was not a debate. All sides had their ...

An expert speaks to a citizens panel on the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel.

The obvious path forward for spent nuclear fuel is to put it all into dry cask storage at a single centralized storage facility. Two companies, Holtec and Waste Control Specialists, are vying for ...

It’s also sitting on 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste. For some experts, the dry casks are a fine solution and the benefits of nuclear power generation far outweigh the negatives of nuclear ...

PLYMOUTH -- The owner of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant plans to begin moving spent fuel into dry cask storage, part of a new campaign that officials say is needed to maintain room in spent fuel ...

Dry cask storage is lower risk Just how big of a risk is nuclear waste near the lake? It depends.

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 ...

The waste has accumulated in spent-fuel pools and dry casks intended for temporary storage since the U.S. nuclear industry began to take off in the 1960s, and the DOE’s failure to permanently ...

Progress Energy Inc.'s willingness to consider "dry-cask" storage for spent nuclear fuel at two of its nuclear power plants in the Carolinas doesn't extend to its nuclear reactor in Crystal River.