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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 ...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Nuclear plant operators trying to avoid complete reactor meltdowns said Thursday that they were close to completing a new power line that might end Japan's crisis, but several ...

The news comes after concerns were raised that Holtec was planning to discharge a million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay following a Nov. 22 meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning ...

CORTLANDT — All spent fuel at the Indian Point nuclear power plant facility in Westchester County has been transferred to dry storage, the state Department of Public Service announced Monday. The ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fire and blast at the building protecting a massive pool holding spent atomic fuel has taken Japan's nuclear crisis to a more critical level. After days of Tokyo Electric Power ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Water used to cool radioactive waste at the stricken nuclear complex in Japan did not dry up, as earlier feared, U.S. regulators said Wednesday in a reversal of a claim that pitted U ...

Several panel members urged Entergy to work toward moving more of its spent nuclear fuel out of the spent fuel pool and into so-called dry cask storage, which is widely viewed as safer and less prone ...

The U.S. nuclear industry must do more to ensure the safety of spent fuel pools during extreme events and severe accidents to avoid another nuclear disaster similar to what happened in Japan in 2011, ...

A LEGO fan has designed a model of a nuclear power plant - complete with features including a used fuel pool, control room, steam turbine and cooling system as well as the reactor and operators - and ...