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Cleaning Up Our Nuclear Mess Can’t Repeat Our Past Mistakes
29 Jan 2026 08:10 GMT
… nuclear waste. In 1957, the National Academy of Sciences proposed spent fuel rods … the nation’s high-level radioactive waste.
The decision was … of storing high-level radioactive waste for at least … storage for high-level radioactive waste that ensures its …
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Vermontitude Episode 132: Fuel rod storage, with guest Kate O’Connor
28 Jan 2026 03:53 GMT
In this week's Vermontitude video webcast, host Peter "Fish" Case chats with Kate O'Connor, former chair of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel.
There’s a Vt. House bill in the works (H.601) that, if it passes, …
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Scott pushes lawmakers to reconsider nuclear energy in Vermont
23 Jan 2026 02:24 GMT
… remain cautious about using nuclear power.
“I think nuclear power is something … about how to dispose of radioactive spent fuel rods.
The Vermont Public Interest Research …
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A Nuclear Free New York
20 Jan 2026 08:06 GMT
… spent fuel rods.”
“Right now there are 30 countries in the world with nuclear … .”
As for nuclear waste, “You have to store radioactive waste for a … . “And this produces over 100 radioactive chemicals not found in nature …
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After 3 Years Of Intensive Research, Spent Fuel Transportation Containers Developed In Vadodara
07 Jan 2026 02:40 GMT
… handling, transportation, and storage of spent nuclear fuel rods -- is now being manufactured … through nuclear fission, primarily using Uranium-235 fuel rods.
Over time, these fuel rods … from the reactor core, spent fuel rods are stored within the plant …
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With Healey push, nuclear debate revived on Plymouth’s shore
31 Dec 2025 14:20 GMT
… the 62 casks of spent nuclear fuel stored at the site. … a new breed of nuclear infrastructure. Unlike massive … fuel rods and a lack of filtration led to radioactive releases … decommissioning — because largely the spent fuel is really the most dangerous …
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China urges Japan to clarify nuclear-tainted water leakage
24 Dec 2025 13:21 GMT
… water leak containing radioactive substances at the Fugen nuclear power plant during … decommissioning of nuclear power plants and the disposal of radioactive waste,… liters of cooling water from spent fuel rods in 2007, has already triggered …
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‘Blown Apart’: A Russian Navy Nuclear Missile Submarine Suffered a Reactor Explosion
22 Dec 2025 14:41 GMT
… nuclear reactor, withdrawing the submarine’s spent nuclear fuel rods, and replacing them with new nuclear fuel … force of the explosion that radioactive reactor fuel and reactor components were …
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Why investors are betting on nuclear fusion even as it remains elusive
21 Dec 2025 16:27 GMT
… computing and AI operations
NUCLEAR fusion has long … difference between nuclear fusion and fission?
Nuclear fission entails … level, long-lived radioactive waste from spent fuel rods, and there’s … State-owned China National Nuclear Corporation said it could …
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(News Focus) Door opens for Seoul's pursuit of uranium enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing
14 Nov 2025 08:25 GMT
… to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes, with … very limited authority to reprocess spent nuclear fuel or enrich uranium for civilian … operates 26 commercial nuclear reactors. The storage for spent fuel rods from the reactors …