The US Department of Energy’s failure to transport and store spent nuclear fuel (SNF) pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act has required the government to reimburse the industry for substantial ...
OLKILUOTO, Finland — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at about minus 430 meters (1,411 feet),” muttered ...
Sweden has initiated the construction of a repository for the long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in Söderviken, close to the Forsmark nuclear power plant. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste ...
At nearly 20 percent of our current electricity production, U.S. energy policy must include commercial nuclear power to satisfy our increasing demand for electricity over the next century, yet certain ...
Spent fuel rod storage containers are seen at Entergy Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Vt. (Reformer file photo) BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- After Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is closed and when the site is ...
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 ...
London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...
One of the most formidable obstacles to exploiting the full potential of nuclear energy is the long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste that is generated by the burning of fuel in nuclear ...
After decades of failed federal nuclear policy, I commend Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49) for their leadership and progress in relocating spent nuclear ...
Malaysia’s TRIGA PUSPATI research reactor has been in operation since 1982. (Photo: Malaysian Nuclear Agency) Medical isotope production, education, research, training, materials testing — the uses ...
The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...
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