Within a few years, these last spent fuel rods can then be safely transported off-site for storage, reprocessing and the manufacturing of fresh reactor fuel. That’s projected to be 2026 for Unit ...

Although with e.g. Fukushima Daiichi’s triple meltdown the zircalloy fuel rods were partially destroyed, it was the formation of hydrogen gas inside the reactor vessels and the hydrogen ...

The damaged nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was crippled by a March 11, 2011 tusnami. ... Parts of the control-rod drive mechanism, ...