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Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) has published...
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UK completes transfer of Winfrith waste drums ahead of schedule
A major project involving the UK’s Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) and Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) to permanently dispose of more than 1,000...
SKB breaks ground on new geology building in Forsmark
Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) said a ground-breaking ceremony has taken place for a new geology building in Forsmark. The building will...
SHINE Technologies selects Deep Isolation technology for high-level waste
US-based nuclear waste storage and disposal company Deep Isolation has been selected by SHINE Technologies as its preferred solution for storage and disposal of the high-level waste...
AFCONE and DeepGeo launch partnership to expand nuclear energy in Africa
The African Commission On Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) and US-based DeepGEO have signed a partnership agreement paving the way for expanding nuclear energy in Africa and establishing a...
Orano and SHINE Technologies to co-operate on used fuel recycling
The Orano group and US-based SHINE Technologies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a view to developing a pilot plant in the USA for recycling used nuclear fuel...
DOE awards integrated tank disposition contract at the Hanford Site
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded the Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract (ITDC) to Hanford Tank Waste Operations...
Cruas-Meysse 2 restarts using recycled uranium fuel
Unit 2 of France’s Cruas-Meysse NPP is now operating its first full core of recycled uranium fuel. EDF Nuclear & Thermal Park Director Cedric Lewandowski said this was “a historic...
EIS granted for extension of El Cabril
The General Directorate of Quality & Environmental Assessment at Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition & Demographic Challenge (Miteco) has issued an Environmental...
UK council withdraws from talks to host geological disposal facility at Holderness
Councillors at the UK's East Riding of Yorkshire Council have voted to withdraw from talks on the possibility of hosting a nuclear geological disposal facility (GDF) at South...
New study reveals potential for reduction in high-level nuclear waste volumes
US-based nuclear waste storage and disposal company Deep Isolation has completed a study for SHINE Technologies, which is developing solutions to recycle used nuclear fuel by...
DOE explores foreign vitrification technology
Jeff Avery Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has visited France to learn more about the...
EC approves Belgian nuclear melting furnace
The European Commission (EC) has approved development by Belgian Research Centre (SCK-CEN) and the Liège-based Centre for Metallurgical Research (CRM) of an advanced smelter for...
Innovative equipment for handling spent nuclear fuel sent to Akkuyu NPP
JSC Ruspolimet in Vyksa (Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region) has shipped the lead transport and packaging container TUK-137T.A1 manufactured for the Akkuyu NPP under construction in...
CoRWM highlights waste considerations in SMR deployment
A position paper by the UK Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) looks at the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced modular reactors (AMRs) and...
Swedish regulator approves extended intermediate storage for used fuel
Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM - Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) has approved radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering’s (SKB’s) renewed safety report for...
Russia’s Mayak begins installation of sixth electric furnace
Installation has begun of a new electric furnace – the EP 250/6 – at Russia’s Mayak Production Association in Ozersk. This is part of a major upgrade of Mayak’s technology for...
Xcel Energy awards Orano contract for dry fuel storage systems
Xcel Energy has awarded a multi-year contract to TN Americas, a subsidiary of Orano Nuclear Packaging & Services (NPS) to provide onsite dry fuel storage solutions to the US...
Work begins on new panel for US Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Work has begun to mine a new panel at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, according to DOE’s Office of Environmental Management...
NUKEM completes test set-up for solidification plant
Germany-based NUKEM Technologies (a subsidiary of Rosatom) announced that the experimental set-up for its state-of-the-art solidification plant has been completed. NUKEM, an...