The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 ...

At the plant, containment structures protect the public from the reactor vessel. Water in the spent fuel pool blocks radiation until it cools enough to go into dry casks, which are licensed to ...

Two new modular nuclear reactors, dubbed SMR-300s, are planned for co-location with the restarting Palisades Plant by 2030.

and that safety measures and spent fuel pool storage must account for it. Singh said spent fuel from the SMR-300 units would be stored on-site at Palisades in underground casks that could safely ...

Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared torn Wednesday about whether to block a federal license allowing a private company to store spent nuclear fuel away from a nuclear facility amid safety concerns ...

A water leak was reported at a storage pool for spent nuclear fuel in 2001. Rainwater was found leaking into an emergency power source building in 2017. The NRA decided to suspend screening of ...

The world's nuclear power plants generate spent fuel from the production of electricity in some 30 countries. All of the spent fuel is stored on-site or off-site in engineered storage facilities, ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. The case ...

Texas and a Texas-based oil and gas extraction organization argued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked the authority to approve a site to store up to 5,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel ...