The reactor core was dismantled during the past several years and most of it was put into shielded containers and shipped to ...

On a special episode (first released on April 17, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: While President Donald Trump seems intent on doing everything he can to revive the coal industry, nuclear energy ...

“That nuclear plant’s going to be in pretty ... The spent fuel rods are encased in concrete casks designed to withstand natural disasters. They are kept in what is called the plant’s ...

Oyster Creek, the former nuclear plant ... including fire.” The casks are made of multiple layers of steel and concrete, O’Brien noted Wednesday. He said personnel at the power plant ...

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for used commercial nuclear fuel or until the nation implements ... storage area at Columbia Generating Station has 54 concrete and steel casks, each about 185 tons. Planned maintenance work ...

The catastrophic accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was one of the ... had already started to speak about a radioactive cloud. We received more concrete information on ...

Used nuclear fuel pellets would be contained inside metal rods sealed inside a welded-shut steel canister, which is then sealed inside a thick, shielded transport cask, Jeff Isakson ... and binds ...

Dry casks are metal containers for the radioactive spent fuel that are enclosed in another metal or concrete shell to prevent radiation from escaping. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ...

Spent fuel is currently kept in concrete and steel casks at 55 reactors around the country, including the Point Beach plant in Wisconsin. Vaults to house casks have been built at the Kewaunee nuclear ...