Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The earthquake that shook the U.S. East Coast last week rattled huge, heavy casks holding radioactive nuclear waste at a Virginia plant, moving them as much as 4.5 inches from ...

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

The Indian Point nuclear power plant was an energy juggernaut for 50 years, generating a quarter of the electricity that powered New York City’s iconic, glowing skyline. It is well into its ...

The accident of Fukushima has proofed that the risks of spent fuel must be reduced. Pools are overcrowded, yet permanent repositories are lacking. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in Japan has ...

When it comes to spent nuclear fuel, no solution is perfect—but the U.S's dry casks are pretty tough. Near the Indian Point nuclear power plant, about 35 miles north of New York City, stand two rows ...

SPRINGFIELD, OH--(Marketwired - January 29, 2016) - Handling and storing spent nuclear fuel is an ongoing challenge for nuclear power plants. Konecranes has more than a half-century of experience in ...

“YOU have to go see the waste – did you see the waste?” Isabelle Boemeke shouted into the wind, which whipped her long, dark braid behind her as she stood on the California shoreline in San Luis ...

With five reactors closed in the last three years, the US nuclear industry is in shutdown mode, writes Linda Pentz Gunter - and that means big spending on decommissioning. But now the nuclear ...