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

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

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

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.

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 ...

After about five years, the fuel bundles are removed ... both transfer nuclear energy into electricity and to cool the reactor, nuclear power plants are always located alongside sources of ...

Moltex’s wholly owned Canadian subsidiary is facing complications in its taxpayer-sponsored efforts to construct small ...