The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began removing fuel Monday from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in what will be a ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. has developed an emergency fuel pool cooling system to keep spent nuclear fuel cool in emergency situations, including the loss of plant power. The system consists of a ...

Used nuclear fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is stored in seven pools (one at each of the six reactors, plus a shared pool) and in a dry container storage facility (containing nine casks). Sixty ...

The temperature of the water in the used fuel pool of unit 4 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant has dropped significantly with the start-up of an alternative cooling system. Meanwhile construction ...

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 ...

A stand-alone emergency fuel pool cooling system developed by Westinghouse would be able to keep spent fuel cool in emergencies including the loss of all plant power, the company claims. A stand-alone ...

Could an earthquake much more severe than the one in Japan in 2011 possibly cause used radioactive fuel stored inside the Peach Bottom 3 nuclear plant to be exposed, catch fire and spew radiation?

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WASHINGTON – The chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said all the water is gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's most troubled nuclear plant, raising the possibility of ...

A two-page Policy Forum opinion piece titled Nuclear safety regulation in the post-Fukushima era: Flawed analyses underlie lax U.S. regulation of spent fuel by Edwin Lyman, Michael Schoeppner and ...

Conditions at a crippled nuclear power plant deteriorated further Tuesday, with a Japanese nuclear safety official saying that the water inside the waste fuel storage pool for a damaged reactor may be ...