Rosatom specialists have completed concreting of the second tier of the internal containment (VZO – Vnutrennei Zatsitnoi ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come.

If the Trump administration is serious about energizing the American Golden Age, there’s an obvious path forward.

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

“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 ...

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 ...

As of December 2024, there were over 315,000 bundles of spent nuclear fuel rods in the U.S., and over 3,800 dry storage casks in concrete vaults above ground, located at current and former power ...

to hold spent fuel from the nuclear reactor. Courtesy Energy Northwest The secure outdoor used fuel storage area at Columbia Generating Station has 54 concrete and steel casks, each about 185 tons.

A number of significant barriers stand in the way of those conversations becoming anything concrete ... of small nuclear reactors grew more inviting. Spent nuclear fuel casks are stored at ...

Waste Control Specialists first filed its application in 2016 to receive high-level nuclear waste and store it in concrete casks on a temporary basis. The Consolidated Interim Storage Facility is ...