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 ...
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 ...
Three nuclear stacks emitting steam are lit with red light against the darkening sky of an oncoming night. - Michael Nosek/Getty Images The process of refueling a nuclear plant, known as an outage, is ...
Cooling of a spent fuel pool at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, which is due to be decommissioned, restarted late ...
A nuclear engineer reacts to a chilling what-if scenario: swimming in a nuclear spent fuel pool. This video explains what spent fuel pools are, how radiation behaves in water, what shielding actually ...
A nuclear engineer reacts to a chilling what-if scenario: swimming in a nuclear spent fuel pool. This video explains what spent fuel pools are, how radiation behaves in water, what shielding actually ...
TOKYO — Japan’s environment and nuclear minister visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant on Saturday to inspect a spent fuel pool at the center of safety concerns and said ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear regulator warned on Wednesday that one pool holding spent fuel at Japan's stricken nuclear plant may have run dry and a second could be leaking, something ...
The operator of the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant being decommissioned said Sunday it halted cooling of a spent fuel ...