Nearly every nuclear reactor that has ever operated in the United States is still holding onto the fuel it used decades ago. The federal government promised a permanent underground repository for that ...

As nuclear power’s role in the global energy mix grows, so does the need for sustainable practices to maximize its prospects.

for release from a dry cask are lower than those from a spent fuel pool because dry casks store older, lower decay-heat fuel. Radioactive material releases from a breach in a dry cask would occur ...

Japan has resumed operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant to help the country meet huge electricity demands ...

Nuclear power is vital for U.S. energy security and decarbonization, however, more than 91,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel remain without a permanent storage solution. Reprocessing and recycling ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to excavate a massive slope that looms over a pool cooling nuclear fuel at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to avert the danger of a landslide.

PARIS (Reuters) - The spent-fuel pools of French utility EDF's nuclear reactors are highly vulnerable to attacks, Greenpeace said in a report published on Tuesday. Written by a group of nuclear ...

Spent nuclear fuel and shutdown nuclear reactors emit antineutrinos, which nuclear watchdogs could use for real-time monitoring of plants. Nuclides used as fuel in nuclear power plants emit ...

Decades of work: decommissioning and spent fuelThe conversation around nuclear power is currently skewed toward new construction. Driven by the power demands of AI data centers, massive amounts of ...

This chapter addresses the first charge of the committee’s statement of task to assess “potential safety and security risks of spent nuclear fuel presently stored in cooling pools at commercial ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The spent-fuel pools of French utility EDF's nuclear reactors are highly vulnerable to attacks, Greenpeace said in a report published on Tuesday. Written by a group of nuclear ...