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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...
NWS eliminates Allerdale from UK GDF siting process
UK Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), which has been investigating potential sites to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for highly radioactive waste, has eliminated Allerdale from...
Safety review of Finnish repository delayed
Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK - Säteilyturvakeskus) said its safety assessment and opinion on the application for a licence for Posiva Oy's used fuel...
Final testing of new US railcar for used fuel transport
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently completed a 1,600-mile round-trip journey from Colorado to Idaho as final testing of the specialised Atlas railcar designed to safely...
IAEA says Greece committed to safe radwaste management
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning and Remediation (ARTEMIS) mission said that...
Ceremony marks completion of radioactive waste storage in Kazakhstan
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Office of Radiological Security (ORS) has formally marked the completion of a new...
UK and Japan to co-operate on radioactive waste management
Two projects have been awarded a share of £1m ($1.25m) by the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI).
Positive regulatory decision on Olkiluoto waste facility
Finland’s Radiation & Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK - Säteilyturvakeskus) has issued its decision on the periodic safety assessment (PSA) of Teollisuuden Voima Oyj’s (TVO's)...
UK Dalton Institute looks at ways to manage plutonium
The UK-based Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester looking at whether the UK plutonium stockpile should become waste or energy. “Managing the UK plutonium stockpile:...
Studsvik and GNS to co-operate on waste treatment in Germany
Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik and German radioactive waste specialist Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service (GNS) have formed a strategic and exclusive...
IAEA Director General Grossi visits Sweden’s Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, during an official visit to Sweden, travelled to the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, where research is underway 500 metres below ground....
Xcel Energy's Monticello NPP to increase used fuel storage
US utility Xcel Energy has received the necessary approval from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) to extend operations of the Monticello NPP until 2040, the company said...
US court cancels Texas nuclear waste storage permit
A US appeals court has cancelled a licence granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to a company planning construction of a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in...
First used fuel loading campaign completed at Krško NPP
The 16th and final HI-STORM FW dry storage system has been placed into the dry storage building at the Krško NPP in Slovenia, US-based Holtec International said on its Facebook...
Japan's Chugoku Electric to study construction of used fuel storage
Japan’s Chugoku Electric Power Company has won approval from the municipal government of Kaminoseki town in Yamaguchi Prefecture to study the possible construction of an interim...
Russia begins installation of second plant for processing depleted uranium hexafluoride
Russia’s Electrochemical Plant (ECP - part of the Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL) has begun installation of second plant (W2-ECP) for the processing of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF))...
