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IAEA commends Portugal's commitment to safe radwaste management
31 May, 2023
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Belgian regulator issues permit for waste facility construction
Thursday, May 25, 2023 by Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) has granted a permit to radioactive waste management agency Ondraf/Niras to construct and operate a surface disposal facility for...

Radioactive liquid waste processing fully operational at Idaho National Lab
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 by The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is now fully operational, according to the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Environmental...

Japan’s regulator approves Fukushima water release plan
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has formally approved Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (Tepco’s) operation plan for the release to the ocean of treated water from the...

Holtec receives approval for used fuel facility
Thursday, May 11, 2023 by US-based Holtec International has received the final licence from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for construction and operation of a facility in Lea County, southeast...

IAEA commends Sweden’s radwaste management
Thursday, May 04, 2023 by An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste & Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning & Remediation (ARTEMIS) team has concluded...

UK details strategy for nuclear waste management
Thursday, April 27, 2023 by UK Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has launched a strategy focused on key objectives “to ensure that the right waste form, in the right package, is managed or disposed of at the...

US DOE contract awarded for Hanford site work
Friday, April 21, 2023 by 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...

US Idaho Waste Treatment Facility begins operation
Friday, April 14, 2023 by The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site has begun...

France’s Andra seeks to increase low-level waste storage capacity
Thursday, April 13, 2023 by France’s National Agency for the management of radioactive waste (Andrea - l’Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs) has applied to the prefecture of Aube for...

Slovenia commissions dry storage facility for Krško NPP
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 by Slovenian nuclear utility Nuklearna Elektrarna Krško (NEK) says the new used fuel dry storage facility at its Krško NPP has been commissioned with the placement by US-based...

SKB takes over Forsmark Harbour
Friday, April 07, 2023 by Sweden's radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) has taken over Forsmark's port from former owner Forsmark's power group, FKA. Among other things,...

Environmental group urges use of fast reactors
Thursday, April 06, 2023 by In a new report, “What a waste: How fast-fission power can provide clean energy from nuclear waste”, environmental group RePlanet advocates recycling used nuclear fuel as fuel...

Finnish Government grants licence for Loviisa final disposal facility
Wednesday, April 05, 2023 by The Finnish Government has granted Fortum a licence to operate the final disposal facility for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste at the Loviisa NPP site, until the end...

HALEU production planned for Savannah River Site as clean-up continues
Tuesday, April 04, 2023 by The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Savannah River Site (SRS) says the H Canyon facility recently initiated actions to recycle a small amount of used highly enriched uranium...

Used fuel from US EBR-II reactor transferred to dry storage
Friday, March 31, 2023 by The US Department of Energy (DOE) has transferred all of the used nuclear fuel from the closed Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) from wet to dry storage. The target was...

NDA considers Deep Isolation borehole disposal
Thursday, March 23, 2023 by US-based Deep Isolation EMEA Ltd has published a study, commissioned by the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which assessed the role directional borehole technology might...

New silo maintenance facility opens at Sellafield
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by A new facility designed to support the retrieval of waste from two of Sellafield’s most hazardous legacy facilities has begun operation in the UK. The Silo Maintenance Facility...

IAEA mission reviews Slovakia’s radwaste management
Friday, March 03, 2023 by An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste & Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning & Remediation (Artemis) team has completed a...

Orano TN Eagle cask selected for use at Switzerland’s Leibstadt NPP
Wednesday, March 01, 2023 by Orano NPS, a subsidiary of France’s Orano Group has been selected by Swiss utility Axpo to supply its TN Eagle casks for the entire operating period of the Leibstadt NPP. The TN Eagle...

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