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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 ...

CORTLANDT — All spent fuel at the Indian Point nuclear power plant facility in Westchester County has been transferred to dry storage, the state Department of Public Service announced Monday. The ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fire and blast at the building protecting a massive pool holding spent atomic fuel has taken Japan's nuclear crisis to a more critical level. After days of Tokyo Electric Power ...

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 ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company announced the discovery on 9 August of a water leak at unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant involving an estimated 25 tonnes of water from the used fuel ...

Several panel members urged Entergy to work toward moving more of its spent nuclear fuel out of the spent fuel pool and into so-called dry cask storage, which is widely viewed as safer and less prone ...

A LEGO fan has designed a model of a nuclear power plant - complete with features including a used fuel pool, control room, steam turbine and cooling system as well as the reactor and operators - and ...