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Workers have entered the cocooned former plutonium-producing F Reactor at the Hanford site in the USA for the first time in six years to conduct a scheduled inspection.

Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 23 October 2014

NRC accepts Yucca Mountain design

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted the Department of Energy’s design for an underground geologic nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Waste & Recycling · Friday, 17 October 2014

Oldbury defuelling reaches halfway point

Over half the 52,060 used nuclear fuel elements at the former Magnox nuclear power plant at Oldbury in the UK have now been removed from site, two and a half years after the plant generated its last power.

Waste & Recycling · Friday, 17 October 2014

Yeniseysky underground laboratory by 2024

Russia's national operator for radioactive waste management aims to build by 2024 an underground research laboratory tasked with studying the possibility of final waste disposal of high-level radioactive waste in the Nizhnekansky Granite Massif in Krasnoyarsk.

Waste & Recycling · Friday, 17 October 2014

Legal issues for Russian radioactive waste

Russia's national operator for radioactive waste management has highlighted the main problems it faces in siting disposal facilities.

Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 16 October 2014

Nuclear Window project gathers pace

Russia's Rosatom and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have announced milestone dates for two projects in their so-called Nuclear Window program.

Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Areva and EPZ sign transport cask contract

Areva, the French engineering company, has signed a contract with Dutch utility EPZ to supply three "next-generation" TN 17 MAX casks. The contract is part of an EPZ agreement for used fuel recycling, signed by the two companies in 2011, and which covers most notably the transportation of nuclear materials.

Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 9 October 2014

Dounreay ready to assist fire investigation

A fire on a ship carrying radioactive waste from Dounreay as part of its site closure program has been extinguished and posed no threat to the cargo, crew or environment, Tina Wrighton, spokeswoman for Dounreay, told World Nuclear News.

Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Tepco, Sellafield agree to share experience

A formal cooperation agreement has been signed between Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the UK's Sellafield Ltd. It follows the earlier signing of an initial cooperation statement between the two companies.

Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Tokai reprocessing plant to shut

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency will shut its reprocessing plant in Tokai, reportedly due to the costs of modifications required under post-Fukushima safety regulations.

Waste & Recycling · Monday, 29 September 2014

Joint venture wins Sellafield contract

A joint venture of Jacobs, Amec and Balfour Beatty has won an engineering, procurement and construction framework contract to provide a new facility to treat and immobilize hazardous wastes from the decommissioning of the UK's nuclear legacy facilities.

Waste & Recycling · Monday, 29 September 2014

Rostechnadzor outlines used fuel targets

Russia expects to reprocess all of its 'damaged' used nuclear fuel - at Mayak Production Association in Ozersk - by 2030, and to open the second stage of its centralized dry storage facility - at the Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk - by 2016.

Waste & Recycling · Friday, 26 September 2014