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 ...

The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began removing fuel Monday from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in what will be a ...

The first container has been filled with long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste from the used fuel pools of unit 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant, which was shut down in September 2022 ...

The process of refueling a nuclear plant, known as an outage, is a critical, time-intensive process. Despite its ominous name, refueling outages are an essential act of preventative care for nuclear ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has examined two unused fuel assemblies from the fuel storage pool at unit 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant and found no significant damage. A further 200 unused ...

BRATTLEBORO – Human error at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant caused the water in the spent fuel pool to drop five inches before operators in the control room ...