The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. The case ...

A discussion that could drastically change Northwest Colorado’s economic and environmental future accelerated on Tuesday ...

The justices heard arguments in a dispute over a federal license for a private waste storage facility planned in Texas. The Supreme Court on Wednesday did not clearly indicate whether it planned ...

Among the procedures I oversaw while serving on Navy submarines, the most complex and painstaking was bringing a new reactor core to criticality. That refers to the state of sustaining a stable ...

which measures the gamma radiation emitted by spent nuclear fuel. Nuclear fuel consists of rods, a few metres long and containing uranium, which are gathered into an assembly to act as a fuel element.

Texas and Interim Storage Partners v. Texas — could determine not only where spent nuclear fuel can be stored in the absence of a permanent national repository, but also who can challenge ...

Each assembly has 179 to 264 fuel rods ... By law, the Energy Department is required to accept and store spent nuclear fuel, ...

Roughly 100,000 tons (90,000 metric tons) of spent fuel, some of it dating from the 1980s, is piling up at current and former nuclear plant sites nationwide and growing by more than 2,000 tons ...

"The potential for disaster is too great and the cost is too high: Fort Worth asserts that it is simply unwise to transport spent nuclear fuel through its city limits on rail." Right now ...