(Image: Tractebel) A project is under way to remove non-fissile components from the used fuel pools that contain part of the intermediate-level radioactive waste from the reactor. The complex process ...

SAINT JOHN — Moltex Energy Canada Inc. (Moltex) announces that a patent for its spent nuclear fuel recycling process has been granted in Canada. Invented by Moltex co-founder and Chief Scientist ...

This major achievement for nuclear power sustainability in Canada was the result of a transparent, dialogue-driven process centred on the needs and concerns of the 22 potential host communities. Deep ...

In a letter sent on Friday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a group of 12 nuclear experts said they’d learned through the documents provided to Ms. O’Donnell that a policy-making process on ...

Researchers at Sweden’s Linnaeus University described a previously unknown chemical process for the removal of uranium from groundwater. In a 17-year-long experiment, the team of researchers ...

As the Nuclear Waste Management Organization begins the regulatory process for a deep geological repository site in northern Ontario to store spent nuclear fuel, after a 14-year site-selection ...

Cunningham said that "the U-235 burns off as you're doing fission to make electricity." However, as the DOE noted, a significant amount of uranium remains in the spent fuel after the fission process.

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 are stored underground near the … ...