COVERT, MI — Stacked in neat rows, concrete and steel nuclear waste casks look not unlike large soda cans. But rather than a tasty beverage, the canisters contain spent fuel rods filled with used ...

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Submerged in 40-ft.-deep (12 m) tanks of blue, boron-infused water, nearly 50,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel are stored near the 104 nuclear reactors in the U.S. Industry officials say it is perfectly ...

A major conference on managing spent nuclear fuel from power reactors is taking place at the IAEA this week. The IAEA is hosting the International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from ...

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 ...

Nuclear power can help address the twin challenges of ensuring reliable energy supplies and curbing greenhouse emissions. Today more than 400 nuclear power reactors in operation in 31 countries supply ...

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 ...

TOKYO, March 20 (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, said on Sunday the temperatures at spent fuel pools at reactors 5 and 6 in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are ...