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For the first time in decades, the United States is taking serious steps to rebuild its nuclear energy capacity. Recent ...
As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are ...
What do you do with a state-of-the-art facility that never opens? The story of Barnwell is a strange mix of science, ...
Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) crews have successfully transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel baskets into safer, long-term storage ...
Yesterday, the Idaho Cleanup Project crews successfully transferred about 40 spent nuclear fuel baskets into safer, long term ...
The Guidance on the Management of Disused Radioactive Sources applies to Category 1 to 3 radioactive sources. The IAEA safety standards categorize radioactive sources into five categories, with ...
The Holtec Hi-Storm Umax dry storage system for spent fuel at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Courtesy of Southern California Edison) ...
Storing spent fuel safely and sustainably is a moral imperative for state leaders.
For those concerned about Iran becoming a nuclear-armed state, it’s essential to understand not just what the attacks by the US and Israel did to the country’s capacity to enrich uranium, but also ...
U.S. intelligence agencies had long assessed that, faced with the possibility of an attack on its nuclear facilities, Iran would try to move its stockpile.
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s authority to license consolidated interim storage, clears the way for Holtec to move forward on a spent fuel storage ...