A 180-ton lead and steel cask containing spent nuclear fuel will cross 13 states and travel more than 2,500 miles.

Commercial nuclear fuel rods are unloaded from a cask inside Idaho National Laboratory’s Hot Fuel Examination Facility hot cell in this file photo. (Courtesy of Idaho National Laboratory) Officials ...

The State of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy agreed to a “targeted waiver” of the 1995 Settlement Agreement this week in order for Idaho National Laboratory to research a high burnup nuclear ...

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We discuss the state’s new agreement to bring a DOE research cask of spent nuclear fuel to INL. Three decades after a monumental agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy over radioactive waste and ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

VERNON — A consultant hired by the U.S. Department of Energy has come up with preliminary plans for moving the spent nuclear fuel currently stored at the Vermont Yankee site in Vernon to an interim ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. and Holtec International signed a 10-year teaming agreement to provide dry cask spent fuel storage technology to U.S. nuclear power plants. Westinghouse’s experience with dry ...

A wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, has officials closely monitoring the decommissioned Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township. The Jones Road Forest Fire, advancing near the ...