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 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 ...

The Akademik Lomonosov, a floating nuclear power plant operational since May 2020 in the Russian Arctic region of Chukotka, ...

Spent nuclear fuel is being sunk into a storage pool at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture in 2020. (Provided by Kansai Electric Power Co.) ...

It applies to facilities that reprocess spent fuel and other material from nuclear power plants that use metallic and oxide fuels, including materials from mixed oxide (MOX) fuel and breeder reactors.

near Vattenfall’s 3.2-GW Forsmark nuclear power plant, on Jan. 15. The milestone kicks off a 10-year construction period for the Swedish Spent Fuel Repository. “The final repository will be ...

It is the world's only floating nuclear power plant and at the same time the ... making it possible to sent the spent fuel for reprocessing at the RT-1 plant in Mayak, Chelyabinsk region. The Barents ...

The nuclear-spent fuel market faced a downfall of revenue due to COVID-19. When compared to fossil fuels, nuclear power plants can create electricity with reduced carbon emissions. Even though nuclear ...

Egypt's Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) has received a permit to build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility at the domestic El-Dabaa power plant, approximately 320km north-west of Cairo.

Long-flustered nuclear ... plant is completed, it can treat only 800 tons of spent nuclear fuel annually at full capacity, compared with 19,250 tons of spent fuel stored nationwide. Kyushu ...

During my visit to the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, I learned that this 692 ... the world’s first deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel. 6. Nuclear Reprocessing - Successfully ...

These reactors which have supplied power to millions of homes in the past have always faced hurdles in terms of public acceptance. With most nuclear plant owners unwilling ... Storage of such nuclear ...