The first step toward moving the casks to safer storage was modifying WESF’s aged ventilation system and filling six of its aged ventilation system and filling six of its contaminated hot cells with ...

Nuclear Waste Program's efforts to oversee cleanup of one of the world's most complex nuclear sites. Join us as we look back ...

Slovenia's project to build a dry storage facility for used fuel is set to be completed later this year with the transfer of the first 592 used fuel elements. The new facility is part of the plant's ...

A specially-designed gantry crane which allows for the precision handling and positioning of containers has been delivered to Nucleoelectrica's used fuel dry storage project for Argentina's Atucha 2. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 400 people gathered at the desert site north of Idaho Falls on Tuesday to celebrate the achievement of a major milestone in ...

Doomsday scenario: Terrorists commandeer a 747 and crash it into San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s dry waste storage pad. Are we all going to die? Well, yes, someday. But probably not from this.

WATERFORD, Conn. – Nuclear power plants across the United States are building or expanding storage facilities to hold their spent fuel – radioactive waste that by now was supposed to be on its way to ...