SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns as 123 canisters of spent nuclear fuel ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...

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

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used fuel ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

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The years-long process for regulators to decide whether a proposed nuclear waste storage site gets the green light has begun.

Throughout the past century, nuclear technology has become a core fascination of the scientific world. Numerous countries have explored its potential and implemented it in medicine, energy, and, ...

Deep under the icy waters of the Barents Sea, a long-hidden reminder of the Cold War has reappeared after 37 years. Russia’s ...

Spent nuclear fuel remains highly radioactive for thousands of years and can be very dangerous if not properly handled and maintained.[3] The issue of how and where to store this waste has been hotly ...