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Costain to reduce height of Trawsfynydd reactor buildings
Costain to reduce height of Trawsfynydd reactor buildings
Infrastructure solutions company Costain has been awarded a GBP70 million (USD94 million) contract to halve the height of the two reactor buildings at the shut-down Trawsfynydd Magnox nuclear power plant in Gwynedd, North Wales, UK.
 
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Belgian waste storage extension approved
Belgian waste storage extension approved
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.
 
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 6 October 2025
Cavendish, Amentum awarded follow-on Monju contract
Cavendish, Amentum awarded follow-on Monju contract
British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear, together with its delivery partner USA-based engineering company Amentum, has been awarded the next phase of work by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency to support the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
 
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 29 September 2025
Orano-Zeno deal aims to power space batteries from recycled nuclear ‘waste’
Orano-Zeno deal aims to power space batteries from recycled nuclear ‘waste’
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.
 
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 25 September 2025
Construction starts of Belgian disposal facility
Construction starts of Belgian disposal facility
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.
 
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 19 September 2025
Kazakhstan seeks German expertise in nuclear back-end
Kazakhstan seeks German expertise in nuclear back-end
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.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 12 September 2025
Angra 1 used fuel being transferred to dry storage
Angra 1 used fuel being transferred to dry storage
Eletronuclear has begun a four month campaign of transferring used fuel from Angra nuclear power plant’s unit 1 to the Complementary Dry Storage Unit - a process which will increase by 20 years the life of the cooling pools.
 
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Oklo announces plans for Tennessee fuel recycling plant
Oklo announces plans for Tennessee fuel recycling plant

Oklo Inc has announced plans to design, build, and operate a facility at Oak Ridge in Tennessee to recycle used nuclear fuel into fuel for fast reactors like the company's own Aurora powerhouse, and is teaming up with TVA to look into recycling the utility's used fuel.

Waste & Recycling · Monday, 8 September 2025
Funding allocated for UK plutonium disposal research
Funding allocated for UK plutonium disposal research
The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has been allocated GBP154 million (USD207 million) in government funding to develop specialised capabilities to enable plutonium disposal. The government announced earlier this year that the country's stockpile of plutonium will be immobilised and disposed of in a geological disposal facility.
 
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 1 September 2025
Assessment of Asse storage chamber conditions begins
Assessment of Asse storage chamber conditions begins
An exploratory borehole is providing the first indications of the condition of the stored drums containing radioactive waste within Storage Chamber 12 at the former Asse II salt mine in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 19 August 2025
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