Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

The scope of IAEA's transport regulations includes transport package design and composition, material categorization ... and during the movement of containers carrying spent nuclear fuel from ...

Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies—Oklo and Lightbridge—will consider co-locating their commercial ...

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear ...

For the scientists, engineers and specialists working on the project, it is important to know the composition of ... robot has been used to remove spent nuclear fuel from the site.

However, the 200 tons account for only about 5 percent of all spent nuclear fuel at Kansai Electric's Takahama, Mihama and Oi nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture. Mori acknowledged that the ...

Since the map of scientific features, which shows potential locations for deep geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, was published four ...