Several panel members urged Entergy to work toward moving more of its spent nuclear fuel out of the spent fuel pool and into so-called dry cask storage, which is widely viewed as safer and less prone ...

The U.S. has launched an experiment for domestic companies to create and operate commercial nuclear fuel production lines to ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different ...

Twenty years after the state's only nuclear plant was finally decommissioned, atomic power is reentering the conversation ...

As of December 2024, there were over 315,000 bundles of spent nuclear fuel rods in the U.S., and over 3,800 dry storage casks in concrete vaults above ground, located at current and former power ...

In 1982, Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. It said it’s the federal government’s responsibility to find a permanent place to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel.

WASHINGTON — The chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says all the water is gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's most troubled nuclear plant. This ...

Despite widespread misconceptions, nuclear waste can actually be recycled to create new fuel and by-products, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. While the United States does not currently ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that about 30 percent of this fuel has been reprocessed—elements in spent fuel can be recycled to create new fuel for nuclear plants—but the ...

A worker clad in protective ware walks past the spent fuel pool at the South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station. (Bob Owen/San Antonio Express-News file photo) ...

Excavating equipment at the site of the Onkalo repository project, the world’s first permanent spent-nuclear-fuel storage facility, deep in granite bedrock in Finland, in 2017.