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Spent fuel rod storage containers are seen at Entergy Vermont Yan­kee in Vernon, Vt. (Reformer file photo) BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- After Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is closed and when the site is ...

During a nuclear reaction, fuel rods generate a tremendous amount of heat. After most of the fuel has been used, the rods are removed from the... Explainer: What Are Spent Fuel Rods? Some of the ...

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 ...

Moving rods of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) to interim storage or a geologic repository requires road or rail travel. Although a heavy shielding cask protects the rods, long distance transportation ...

Some of the heaviest and most troublesome radioactive material to be removed from the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has only one exit – the imperiled railroad corridor north ...

US nuclear waste policy is at a critical turning point. Mired in decades of disappointments and shortcomings, the monkey on nuclear power’s back is just weeks away from being freed—or being strapped ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Holtec International, a private nuclear energy company, has officially given up on developing what was billed as ...

This publication is a new edition of Technical Reports Series No. 240, Guidebook on Spent Fuel Storage – 2nd Edition (1991). It provides guidance on spent fuel storage options, describing the history ...

On a chilly December evening in eastern Idaho, a semi-tractor trailer truck pulls off the desert highway and up to the gate at the Department of Energy’s Materials and Fuels Complex. The truck and the ...