Safe transportation of spent nuclear fuel is a priority in preventing such ... worldwide tuned in to watch Operation Smash Hit, a train crash shown on live TV. Luna and Johnson strike deal to ...

A March 28 article in the Craig Press, reprinted on the front page of the Steamboat Pilot & Today, reported on a Craig City ...

After three years of testing the Atlas Railcar nuclear waste wagon will be unveiled on 5 June, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Nuclear Energy. The new 12-axle railcar is ...

A train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste has reached its destination in southern Germany after a 17-hour journey ...

Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels deep underground. By Allison Prang Editor’s note: The Climate Fix is our ...

It applies to facilities that reprocess spent fuel and other material from nuclear power plants that use metallic and oxide fuels, including materials from mixed oxide (MOX) fuel and breeder reactors.

The justices heard arguments in a dispute over a federal license for a private waste storage facility planned in Texas. The Supreme Court on Wednesday did not clearly indicate whether it planned ...

Yet one of its biggest challenges is radioactive waste. While spent nuclear fuel is typically stored in underground facilities, researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) believe there may be a ...

However, the 200 tons account for only about 5 percent of all spent nuclear fuel at Kansai Electric's Takahama, Mihama and Oi nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture. Mori acknowledged that the ...

ROKKASHO, Aomori Prefecture—Frustration, impatience and costs continue to soar as Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle policy has again reached an impasse. The completion date for a spent nuclear fuel ...

All spent nuclear fuel that will be deposited in the bedrock will be measured with a method and device that have been developed in a doctoral research thesis being defended on 4 June 2024 at the ...