No spent nuclear fuel is stored in the tunnel, Energy Department officials said.

France, the United Kingdom and others recycle spent nuclear fuel.

We should prepare measures for spent nuclear fuel, he warns.

The German government yesterday announced a timetable to end the reprocessing of its spent nuclear fuel.

The leak forced a suspension of operations to recover plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel.

A British train carrying spent nuclear fuel flasks has derailed as it arrived at a power station.

Congress wanted a secure place to bury spent nuclear fuel, which can stay radioactive for thousands of years.

Here is what is happens about spent nuclear fuel at present: -What happens to spent nuclear fuel?

Experts said it would look to first rebuild its plant that separates plutonium from spent nuclear fuel rods.

A 1995 agreement hammered out between Idaho and the Energy Department bans shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel.

Moscow's ambitious plans have also fueled concerns over terrorism and what do to with highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.

They said it had failed to disclose the scope of its plans for shipping spent nuclear fuel to the state.

But they stressed it was spent nuclear fuel, which can be used to make weapons-grade plutonium, that was the main concern.

First, engineers need to remove the spent nuclear fuel rods stored in reactor buildings -but only after they've cooled off.

Subsequent inspections found that a layer of stainless steel cladding that envelopes the spent nuclear fuel inside the container was defective.

The government was supposed to begin accepting spent nuclear fuel in 1998, part of the deal with utilities that collect the money.