The disaster set in motion on March 11 by a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in an unlikely place: its spent-fuel pools, where experts speculate that ...

During this summer's planned transfer, eight dry-cask canisters will be loaded with spent fuel rods from one of two nuclear reactors at Diablo Canyon. Each cask is expected to take 10 days to load, ...

VERNON — An expensive, time-sensitive effort to move Vermont Yankee's spent fuel into sealed casks has come to a halt as officials investigate a potential problem with those containers. Spokesmen for ...

Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) says its diesel-powered Pacific Grebe has been modified to carry Orano’s TN Eagle, a new spent nuclear fuel package that weighs about 150 metric tons (roughly 165 U.S ...

Russia's Federal Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety plans to start using TUK-1410 casks for the transport of used nuclear fuel from September. The cask will replace the 13th series of transport ...

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how ...

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a materials-licensing rule that would revise several regulatory handoffs ...

EDF Energy last month marked the completion of its first used fuel loading campaign into the new dry fuel store at its Sizewell B pressurised water reactor. It is the first dry used fuel storage ...

A tracked transporter vehicle nicknamed “Cletus” slowly moves a loaded fuel cask at Vermont Yankee on Friday. The transporter travels at about 0.25 mph. Photo courtesy of Entergy [V]ERNON – In spite ...

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