While one third of the spent fuel accumulating globally is reprocessed, most of it is stored until a decision is taken on the end-point strategy (processing or disposal). The nuclear fuel cycle ends ...

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 ...

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

FORSMARK, Sweden (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the ...

Rosatom has developed a new technology for processing ... nuclear materials isolated from irradiated SNOOP fuel - uranium, plutonium and neptunium. The technology of crystallization refining will ...

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 ...

This webinar series focuses on nuclear back-end topics: decommissioning of nuclear facilities, management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, remediation of contaminated land and legacy sites ...

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 ...

Sweden has initiated the construction of a repository for the long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in Söderviken, close to the Forsmark nuclear power plant. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste ...

Sweden has started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. How to store ...