Spent nuclear fuel pools are designed to cool fuel rods after they come out of a nuclear reactor. While powering a nuclear ...

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy paired with a growing pile of difficult-to-discard spent fuel. But a new ...

Some of the heaviest and most troublesome radioactive material to be removed from the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has only one exit – the imperiled railroad corridor north ...

The Texas government's recent loss in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling may prove to be a long-term victory for the state — at least in the eyes of those who see nuclear energy as a viable and desirable ...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear regulator warned on Wednesday that one pool holding spent fuel at Japan's stricken nuclear plant may have run dry and a second could be leaking, ...