Four British universities have been awarded funding to collaborate on research on securing a domestic supply of nuclear graphite and finding solutions to managing the country's stockpile of irradiated graphite waste.
 

The successful completion of the shipping campaign to remove all the used nuclear fuel from Gentilly-1 using NAC International's OPTIMUS-H transportation packaging system is a valuable reference project for used fuel transportation, the company says.
 

A study shows that simulations of underground radioactive waste interactions, generated by new, high-performance computing software, aligned well with experimental results from a research facility in Switzerland.

South Africa's National Nuclear Regulator has granted a nuclear licence to the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute for the management and operation of South Africa's disposal facility for low-level radioactive wastes.

The start of full-scale fuel debris removal from the damaged reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is now expected to begin in 2037 at the earliest, instead of the early 2030s.

The second complex of the Experimental and Demonstration Centre, which will process used nuclear fuel, has been launched, and follows an initial experimental stage.

In a world first, a robotic arm has been retrofitted and operated inside an active nuclear glovebox at Sellafield in the UK, helping to remove the risk to operators and promising to make decades-old gloveboxes safer to dispose of.

A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste within it.

The National Audit Office has outlined delays of more than 10 years in the construction of Bulgaria's National Repository for Long-Term Storage of Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste. It also identified alleged public procurement irregularities.