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Belgian regulator issues permit for waste facility construction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
