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Studsvik signs licence agreement to develop inDRUM waste treatment in South Korea
Sweden’s Studsvik has signed a Technology Licence Agreement with South Korea’s Dongguk Nuclear Solution, to provide engineering services to support an establishment of an inDRUM in...
New air ventilation system for WIPP
A new large-scale ventilation system, also known as the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) is being commissioned at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s)...
Work begins to secure low-level waste vaults at UK’s Drigg repository
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), part of the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), has begun work on the final capping of historic trenches and vaults which are now full and ready...
Orano begins loading dry storage system at US Wolf Creek NPP
Orano USA has completed the first loading of used nuclear fuel into the first three upper modules of the two-tiered NUHOMS MATRIXTM horizontal dry storage system installed at the...
US Nuclear promotes Arbok’s technology for cleaning radioactive wastewater
US Nuclear’s says its partner, Arbok-Nuclear, has developed revolutionary new water purification technology that fully removes radioactive contamination in water, including...
Bechtel to support Urenco's expansion activities in the UK
US-based Bechtel has been selected by European enrichment services and fuel cycle company Urenco to support the expansion of its Tails Management Facility (TMF) at the Capenhurst site...
Canada’s Moltex derisks innovative waste recycling process
Moltex Energy Canada has announced a significant breakthrough in its waste recycling programme, following “rigorous experiments” at its uranium-licensed laboratory. Moltex says it...
Doosan Enerbility awarded used fuel cask project
South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility has signed a contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) to carry out the overall design of a used nuclear fuel dry storage system. The contract...
WIPP ventilation shaft reaches final depth
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico recently achieved a milestone as its largest safety-related ventilation system reached its final...
Construction starts at Netherlands Multifunctional Storage Building
Construction has begun of the Multifunctional Storage Building (MOG) for low and intermediate-level waste - in Nieuwdorp, in the municipality of Borssele, in the Netherlands, the...
IAEA mission reviews Czech radwaste and used fuel management
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste & Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning & Remediation (ARTEMIS) mission says the...
EPRI and NEA to collaborate on waste management for SMRs
The US-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Paris-based Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) have announced a new collaboration on an upcoming NEA Joint Project focusing on...
New nuclear materials sorting facility opens in Canada
A new Canadian nuclear materials sorting facility in Kincardine is now fully operational accepting nuclear materials produced by Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG’s) nuclear operations....
Rosatom and Belarus increase cooperation on radwaste management
Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL has entered into a long-term cooperation agreement with the Belarusian organisation for the management of radioactive waste, BelRAO. The agreement was...
IAEA mission reviews Italy’s radwaste management
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste & Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning & Remediation (ARTEMIS) mission has concluded...
Finnish low-level waste facility receives environmental permit
Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) said the Regional Administrative Agency of Southern Finland has issued an environmental permit for the construction of a soil...
Kansai Electric plans temporary storage of used fuel at NPPs
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co has told Fukui Prefecture that it plans to build air-cooled dry storage facilities at NPPs in the prefecture to temporarily store used fuel. The...
State-of-the-art glove box training facility opens at Sellafield
A state-of-the-art Glove Box Training Facility for the UK nuclear industry has been opened at Sellafield. Glove boxes are crucial to operations at nuclear sites enabling operators...
Canada endorses recommendations for radwaste management
Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy & Natural Resources Canada, has endorsed recommendations put forward by the Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) in its Integrated...