for release from a dry cask are lower than those from a spent fuel pool because dry casks store older, lower decay-heat fuel. Radioactive material releases from a breach in a dry cask would occur ...

Submerged in 40-ft.-deep (12 m) tanks of blue, boron-infused water, nearly 50,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel are stored near the 104 nuclear reactors in the U.S. Industry officials say it is perfectly ...

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 ...

The Texas government's recent loss in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling may prove to be a long-term victory for the state — at least in the eyes of those who see nuclear energy as a viable and desirable ...