Push for on-site storage comes as Holtec sues NYS over Save the Hudson Bill, passed last year to protect the environment, communities and economy from radioactive waste Cortlandt, NY — On Thursday, ...

The two nuclear reactors at FPL Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Homestead, Florida. (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON ...

The Indian Point nuclear power plant was an energy juggernaut for 50 years, generating a quarter of the electricity that powered New York City’s iconic, glowing skyline. It is well into its ...

The Savannah River Site's liquid nuclear waste contractor is nearing the halfway point in a plan that is expected to save taxpayers $100 million. Savannah River Mission Completion announced recently ...

WASHINGTON — Mounting opposition to proposed nuclear waste storage sites in Texas and New Mexico has kept Yucca Mountain in the national debate over what to do with the growing stockpile of ...

A sign warning of radioactive materials is seen on a fence around a nuclear reactor containment building on April 26, 2021, a few days before it stopped generating electricity at Indian Point Energy ...

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the ...

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ROWE — Yankee Rowe hasn’t generated power in 33 years, but Eversource is still warning investors that 127 tons of spent fuel and radioactive waste entombed within 16 concrete casks at the site along ...

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 ...

Holtec International wants to build a temporary storage site in the New Mexico desert to hold nuclear waste from power plants in New York, New Jersey and across the U.S. Holtec's plan is running into ...

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.