A November 2010 study by the Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif., estimates that moving spent fuel older than five years to dry-cask storage would cost $3.6 billion.

“At least 25,400 shipments of [spent nuclear fuel] have been made worldwide, but likely more than 44,400,” the DOE report says. So we know the containers, also known as casks, that the spent ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.