A water leak was reported at a storage pool for spent nuclear fuel in 2001. Rainwater was found leaking into an emergency power source building in 2017. The NRA decided to suspend screening of ...

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station plans to drain radioactive water from two areas of the plant in April, leading to reduced ...

Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...

Spent nuclear fuel is being sunk into a storage pool at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture in 2020. (Provided by Kansai Electric Power Co.) ...

The United Arab Emirates presented its Fifth National Report on Compliance with the Obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste ...

Entrance to ONKALO, Finland’s deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel. (Photo: Posiva Oy) As the world looks to alternatives to fossil fuels to combat climate change, several countries are ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared torn Wednesday about whether to block a federal license allowing a private company to store spent nuclear fuel away from a nuclear facility amid safety concerns ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. The case ...

Finland is soon to become the first country in the world to attempt the burial of nuclear fuel waste in a geological tomb – where it is planned to be stored for the next 100,000 years.