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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear regulator warned on Wednesday that one pool holding spent fuel at Japan's stricken nuclear plant may have run dry and a second could be leaking, something ...

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 ...

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 ...

What happens if you fall into one of those pools where they store the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods?

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 ...