The administration of President Donald Trump wants to quadruple US nuclear power capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050 as electricity demand surges for the first time in decades.

SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns as 123 canisters of spent nuclear fuel ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used fuel ...

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

Spent nuclear fuel remains highly radioactive for thousands of years and can be very dangerous if not properly handled and maintained.[3] The issue of how and where to store this waste has been hotly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent ...

Lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be the ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

Jeff Talbert and Christopher Joseph of Arnold & Porter discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in 'NRC v. Texas' which limits who can challenge nuclear waste storage licenses. The decision leaves ...

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