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Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report

for release from a dry cask are lower than those from a spent fuel pool because dry casks store older, lower decay-heat fuel. Radioactive material releases from a breach in a dry cask would occur ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Truck carrying empty nuclear waste cask crashes

ANDOVER — An oversized flatbed truck carrying an empty nuclear waste cask headed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant drove onto a soft shoulder on Route 11 in Andover and tipped over Friday ...

NIMBY Is Choking America’s Nuclear Revival

America's nascent nuclear renaissance is under threat from a combination of bureaucratic inertia and institutional capture ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Spent nuclear fuel mismanagement poses a major threat to the United States. Here’s how.

Irradiated fuel assemblies—essentially bundles of fuel rods with zirconium alloy cladding sheathing uranium dioxide fuel pellets—that have been removed from a nuclear reactor (spent fuel) generate a ...
Orange County Register

Should feds crash a nuclear waste transport pack to gain your trust?

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...
PBS

This Week on Idaho Reports: The state’s new agreement to bring a DOE research cask of spent nuclear fuel to INL

We discuss the state’s new agreement to bring a DOE research cask of spent nuclear fuel to INL. Three decades after a monumental agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy over radioactive waste and ...
Yahoo

Cutting lethal radioactive leak risks in Eastern WA takes major step

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first highly radioactive capsules of cesium stored underwater in an aging pool at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern ...
Reuters

Indian Point NY plant moves spent nuclear fuel to dry cask storage

Oct 16 (Reuters) - The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, has transferred all spent nuclear fuel to dry cask storage in a move towards decommissioning the plant, the New York ...
Post Register

Idaho, DOE narrowly waive 1995 Settlement Agreement to research high burnup nuclear fuel cask

The State of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy agreed to a “targeted waiver” of the 1995 Settlement Agreement this week in order for Idaho National Laboratory to research a high burnup nuclear ...

Spent nuclear fuel arrives in Aomori amid local concerns

Spent nuclear fuel from Niigata Prefecture arrived here on Sept. 26 en route to a newly opened interim storage facility, a ...
Tribune-Star

Opponents glower over nuclear waste route

In the 1980s, the city of Terre Haute was part of a decade-long legal battle to keep customers of Cinergy/PSI from paying for the costs of Marble Hill, a failed nuclear power plant near Madison.