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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Spent nuclear fuel contains roughly half of the elements listed on the periodic table, so from a chemistry standpoint, there’s a lot to deal with. Dr. Gregg Lumetta, a lab fellow and chemist in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term. Erika Benke visits the Onkalo site to find out more.

The court’s written decision expressly did not give an opinion on the commission’s authority to issue the licenses under ...

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, ...