Dominion (NYSE: D) has told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that although several dry cask storage canisters at the North Anna plant in Virginia shifted slightly after a 2011 earthquake, there ...

Utilities are facing a thorny problem in managing the highly radioactive fuel that is discharged from reactors used to generate electricity. The utilities, design firms, industry groups, legislators, ...

According to a recent market study published by Growth Market Reports (GMR), titled, 'Global Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Cask Market by Type, Application, and Region: Size, Share, Trends and ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has added the HI-STORM Flood/Wind cask system to the "List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks" for storing spent fuel from nuclear reactors.

The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant’s operator said Thursday it will apply for state approval to build a second concrete pad to store spent nuclear fuel on site in dry casks. The company will ask ...

VERNON -- Federal nuclear regulators say storing spent nuclear fuel on-site indefinitely is safe. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week released a study on the environmental impacts of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to ...

In his new position as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Ron Wyden is working on a bi-partisan bill to deal with the country’s nuclear waste. While long term ...

A metal overpack for cask storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design certification from the US Nuclear ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it recently started manufacturing casks for the transport and storage of used nuclear fuel for Shikoku Electric Power Company. The utility will use them at an interim ...