BRATTLEBORO -- In 2006, Vermont's Public Service Board approved a dry cask storage facility for spent fuel at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. In its decision, the board concluded that ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

Cool the fuel to prevent heat-up to high temperatures from radioactive decay. Shield workers and the public from the radiation emitted by radioactive decay in the spent fuel and provide a barrier for ...

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 ...

The waste from the Indian Point Power Plant is now in a safe storage facility instead of being dumped into the Hudson River, according to officials. The nuclear fuel from the power plant in the ...