When the Zion Nuclear Power Station in Illinois closed its doors in 1998, plant owner Commonwealth Edison, now part of Exelon, thought it would take more than two decades to clean up the site. At the ...

Fifteen years after the nation’s worst nuclear accident, the upper floors of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...

Sites being decommissioned - such as the Hanford one, which dates back to the Manhattan Project in the 1940s - have ...

Experts met in Vienna last month to discuss methodologies for selecting decommissioning strategies, sharing experience and examining factors that impact decision making. At the end of a nuclear ...

The Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Committee met recently to hear about federal efforts to store spent nuclear fuel. In 1982 a federal law was ...

Nuclear decommissioning process is often explained by staging into 5 processes, characterization, decontamination, dismantling, waste management, and site restoration. These stages are applicable to ...

The Lithuanian state-owned company leading the decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, Altra, has launched an international tender for the design and dismantling of the reactor cores of ...

Companies tasked with tearing down, cleaning up, or repurposing a project site know the importance of strategic planning. The retirement of older thermal power generation facilities, driven by a ...

Massachusetts will not allow the company decommissioning the former Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to discharge treated nuclear wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. The state's Department of Environmental ...

The Waste Policy Committee of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Panel met this week to hear updates on Congressional action on nuclear waste-related bills and potential changes in federal nuclear ...

Robots are being increasingly used in the nuclear industry for tasks such as inspection, maintenance, and decommissioning, reducing human exposure to hazardous environments. The use of robotics in ...