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Only one drum involved in WIPP release
Photographs taken inside the underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have confirmed that a single waste drum was the source of the contamination incident that has stopped operations at New Mexico facility since February 2014.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 13 February 2015
Finnish regulator approves Posiva's waste repository plan
Finland's radiation and nuclear safety authority has given its backing to Posiva's application to construct a final repository and waste encapsulation plant.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 12 February 2015
US company plans interim waste facility
Texas-based Waste Control Specialists (WCS) has announced plans to apply for a licence to construct and operate an interim storage facility for used nuclear fuel at its facility in Andrews, Texas. Areva is to assist the company with its application and related environmental report.
Waste & Recycling
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Tuesday, 10 February 2015
US without nuclear 'unthinkable' says senator
The US Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) has hailed calls from the chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for energy funding to take steps to avoid a decline in US nuclear capacity as a well-timed "clarion call".
Nuclear Policies
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Friday, 6 February 2015
Yucca Mountain safety review complete
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published the final two volumes of its safety evaluation report for the proposed Yucca Mountain geologic nuclear waste repository, completing the technical safety review of the Department of Energy's application.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 30 January 2015
Two regions selected for Swiss repository studies
Two sites have been selected by Switzerland's national radioactive waste disposal cooperative Nagra for further investigation for hosting deep geological repositories.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 30 January 2015
Canadian waste management on track
As Canada issues its latest report on national radioactive waste management initiatives, the country's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has identified four more communities for further study as potential hosts for a long-term radioactive waste repository.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 23 January 2015
Engineering design support for Spanish waste facility
Tecnatom and Gas Natural Fenosa have won a contract to provide engineering design support for Spain's planned national high-level waste storage facility.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 19 January 2015
Storage of Fukushima clean-up waste to start
The interim storage of contaminated soil and other wastes generated by decontamination efforts at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant and surrounding area will begin in March, the environment ministry has said.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 19 January 2015
Scallop fishing gives clean-up the edge
Scallop fishing techniques could be used to remove sludge from legacy ponds at Sellafield if a second stage of technology development is successful.
Corporate
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Friday, 16 January 2015
Belgian reprocessing contract completed
The final shipment of waste from the reprocessing of Belgian research reactor fuel has been made from the UK to Belgium.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 7 January 2015
NRC publishes Volume 4 of Yucca Mountain report
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published Volume 4 of its safety evaluation report on the proposed underground geologic nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 19 December 2014
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Finland's radiation and nuclear safety authority has given its backing to Posiva's application to construct a final repository and waste encapsulation plant.
Tecnatom and Gas Natural Fenosa have won a contract to provide engineering design support for Spain's planned national high-level waste storage facility.
Scallop fishing techniques could be used to remove sludge from legacy ponds at Sellafield if a second stage of technology development is successful.
The final shipment of waste from the reprocessing of Belgian research reactor fuel has been made from the UK to Belgium.