France generates 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, recycles about 96% of its waste into new fuel and stores the ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to excavate a massive slope that looms over a pool cooling nuclear fuel at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to avert the danger of a landslide. The move ...

About 880 tons of radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the reactors ... Spent fuel removal from the Unit 1 reactor’s cooling pool is set to start in 2027. The reactor top is still ...

OKUMA, Japan — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have ... workers are setting up equipment to remove spent fuel units from the cooling pool. That's set to begin within two ...

Nuclear experts are warning of a potential catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, a site that has served as one of the most unsettling flashpoints of the three-year conflict.

"The spent fuel pool cooling system is designed only to remove decay heat, not heat from an ongoing nuclear reaction." The rods are also vulnerable to fire should they be exposed to air ...

The VVER-1200 reactor vessel is meant for the second unit of the nuclear ... cooling system (ECCS). Other cutting-edge technologies incorporated into the VVER-1200 design include a spent fuel pool ...

External power lines essential to cooling nuclear fuel in the reactors are ... An emission of hydrogen from a spent fuel pool caused an explosion at reactor 4 in Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster ...

OKUMA, Fukushima — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation ... workers are setting up equipment to remove spent fuel units from the cooling pool. That's set to begin within two ...

OKUMA, Japan — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation ... workers are setting up equipment to remove spent fuel units from the cooling pool. That's set to begin within two to ...