American nuclear power plants are overwhelmed by more and more highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel every year which has to be carefully offloaded into already overcrowded spent fuel pools. The spent-fuel pools in America’s oldest nuclear power plants now hold up to five times more fuel than they were initially designed to handle. Dominion Nuclear […]
Exelon has announced that it has finished repairing and upgrading equipment at the Byron nuclear power plant which failed and interrupted power on January 30th, at the Unit 2 switchyard, tripping the reactor. Unit 1 also experienced an incident involving equipment failures which caused a loss of power in Februrary, which was later blamed on […]
Official surveys by the Japanese government have detected levels of cesium over 150,000 bq/kg of radioactive cesium in the soil of Iitate, a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The highest soil samples were collected from the banks of the Niida River, inside of the evacuation zone. Radioactive materials over 100,000 bq/kg cannot […]