TN Americas - a subsidiary of Orano USA - has been awarded a contract by Xcel Energy to provide NUHOMS dry fuel storage systems to the Monticello and Prairie Island nuclear power plants, both in ...

Workers pull the first concrete cask filled with cesium capsules out of the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. Washington state Department of ...

COVERT, MI — Stacked in neat rows, concrete and steel nuclear waste casks look not unlike large soda cans. But rather than a tasty beverage, the canisters contain spent fuel rods filled with used ...

A 180-ton lead and steel cask containing spent nuclear fuel will cross 13 states and travel more than 2,500 miles. A rail journey years in the making will pull away from Dominion Energy’s North Anna ...

Xcel Energy says it needs to store far more nuclear waste at its Prairie Island facility to extend the plant’s life by 20 years, as it has proposed in its long-range plan. Keeping the plant’s two ...

A specially-designed gantry crane which allows for the precision handling and positioning of containers has been delivered to Nucleoelectrica's used fuel dry storage project for Argentina's Atucha 2. ...

North Dakota lawmakers are studying radioactive waste storage options, though nuclear energy is at least a decade away. Current state law prohibits high-level radioactive waste storage, which would ...

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 ...

BISMARCK — Nuclear energy is at least a decade away from coming to North Dakota, but the lawmakers studying its feasibility are already researching potential storage options for radioactive waste.