The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste in the U.S. will continue, probably for many ...

Energy Northwest has hired on 2,000 additional skilled workers, including both Tri-Cities area residents and specialists who ...

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

These bundles of fuel rods are about 12 to 16 feet long and about 5 to 8 inches in diameter. In a nuclear reactor, the fission reactions fueled by the uranium in those rods emit heat that is used ...

A long robotic arm reaches down through 70 feet of water to move a spent nuclear fuel bundle inside the open core of Energy Northwests reactor north of Richland during a previous refueling outage.