US radioactive waste disposal technology developer Deep Isolation has called for nuclear waste disposal to be included in the National Association of State Energy Officials' Advanced Nuclear First Movers Orderbook Strategy.
 

Holtec International has announced that plans to build a consolidated interim storage facility for used nuclear fuel in New Mexico have been cancelled, but said it would still support its partner - the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance - in future used fuel storage opportunities.

Regulatory approval means Disa Technologies Inc's High-Pressure Slurry Ablation technology can be used to remediate abandoned uranium mine waste at inactive mine sites while opening the possibility of recycling uranium recovered from the waste.

A follow-up International Atomic Energy Agency mission to Spain has judged that all seven recommendations and suggestions made following its 2018 review of the country's radioactive waste management programme have been successfully addressed.
 

Belgoprocess has received a permit to build and operate a new building on the Dessel site to store waste released during the final shutdown and dismantling of the country's nuclear power plants.
 

Nuclear battery developer Zeno Power is to make a "multi-million dollar" investment to get priority access to americium-241 supplies from Orano's la Hague recycling site in France.
 

Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever has laid a foundation stone, marking the start of construction of a surface disposal facility for low- and intermediate-level, short-lived waste at the Dessel site in Belgium.
 

Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, says it has identified three initial potential project sites - in Texas, Utah and Kansas.

 

Germany's Nukem Technologies Engineering Services GmbH is to provide consulting services on decommissioning and radioactive waste management to Kazakhstan under a memorandum of understanding signed with the Kazakh Atomic Energy Agency.