They must use maximum protection — full facemasks with filters, multi-layered gloves and socks, shoe covers, hooded hazmat ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Kaylee goes on to reveal that a method for recycling nuclear waste was actually developed in the 1970s but halted in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter because he deemed it too risky. Expert debunks ...

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 ...

The Center for Energy Regulation and Policy Analysis (CERPA) at the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources has released a highly anticipated white paper exploring spent nuclear fuel ...