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 ...

The world's nuclear power plants generate spent fuel from the production of electricity in some 30 countries. All of the spent fuel is stored on-site or off-site in engineered storage facilities, ...

The common pool, where 5,197 spent and unused fuel assembly units were being cooled in water as of March, is expected to hold them for a prolonged period. TEPCO is expected to remove about 100,000 ...

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 ...