As the debate heats up over new sources of nuclear power in Colorado, 33,000 pounds of spent nuclear fuel decays northeast of ...

Storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel from power plants are approaching full capacity across Japan, as the government’s ...

Spent nuclear fuel pools are designed to cool fuel rods after they come out of a nuclear reactor. While powering a nuclear reactor, these fuel rods become very, very hot (2,800 degrees Celsius / 5,092 ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Project Omega, an advanced nuclear recycling company, today emerged from stealth to announce its mission to rebuild America’s nuclear fuel cycle end-to-end and unlock a ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to a chilling what-if scenario: swimming in a nuclear spent fuel pool. This video explains what spent fuel pools are, how radiation behaves in water, what shielding actually ...

A 180-ton lead and steel cask containing spent nuclear fuel will cross 13 states and travel more than 2,500 miles. A rail journey years in the making will pull away from Dominion Energy’s North Anna ...

The U.S. had debated its growing 90,000 metric ton stockpile of spent nuclear fuel for decades. This radioactive “waste” in temporary storage contains untapped energy, enough to power the nation for ...

US startup BLSK Energy plans to use Argonne National Laboratory’s pyroprocessing technology to recycle nuclear waste and ...

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 ...

The 3.6 million pounds of spent nuclear fuel stored at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) are a symptom of a national failure that has left nuclear waste stranded at more than 80 sites ...

Spent fuel reprocessing sounds great, but experts say we haven’t figured out the details. The prospect of making trash useful is always fascinating to me. Whether it’s used batteries, solar panels, or ...