The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

BRATTLEBORO -- In 2006, Vermont's Public Service Board approved a dry cask storage facility for spent fuel at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. In its decision, the board concluded that ...

Storage of high level radioactive waste at California’s other nuclear power plant, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente, is handled similarly to Diablo Canyon nuclear power ...

In his new position as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Ron Wyden is working on a bi-partisan bill to deal with the country’s nuclear waste. While long term ...

Indiana Michigan Power, a unit of AEP (NYSE: AEP), has started the initial loading work for moving used fuel assemblies from the 2,107 MW Cook Nuclear Plant’s spent fuel pool into the recently ...

Utilities are facing a thorny problem in managing the highly radioactive fuel that is discharged from reactors used to generate electricity. The utilities, design firms, industry groups, legislators, ...

A rendering of Orano’s NUHOMS dry cask storage system to be installed at Diablo Canyon. Courtesy Photo Were you surprised? We were – to see such a harsh letter sent to our shared customer by a ...

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Hanford moves 1st radioactive capsules from underwater storage. The capsules could break and release radiation in a severe earthquake. Dry storage should be safer and reduces maintenance and ...