Troubled trail ahead for San Onofre’s spent nuclear fuel ... “This mode choice significantly increases the number of shipments required to de-inventory the SONGS site,” the DOE plan states.

At issue for the justices is Nuclear Regulatory Commission's 2021 approval of Interim Storage Partners’ proposed spent fuel storage facility in west Texas. Interim Storage Partners, a joint venture ...

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. March 05, 2025 at 02:13 PM ...

There is no permanent repository for the nearly 100,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel stranded at civilian nuclear power plants across the country. Nuclear industry experts have long said that the used ...

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 ...

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

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

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that about 30 percent of this fuel has been reprocessed—elements in spent fuel can be recycled to create new fuel for nuclear plants—but the ...

The shipment could arrive in 2027. The research would evaluate how the fuel performs during long-term dry storage. That data is needed by over 53 nuclear sites nationwide to renew their licenses ...

The U.S. nuclear-power renaissance is plunging ahead without a long-term solution for some 92,500 metric tons of spent fuel piled up at power plant sites around the country.

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