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Italian interim storage facility takes shape

Italian interim storage facility takes shape

Construction has started at the Garigliano nuclear power plant in Italy of a facility for the interim storage of wastes generated through the decommissioning of the plant, which shut down more than 40 years ago.

Waste & Recycling 10 June 2024

Rosatom announces novel used fuel processing technology

Rosatom announces novel used fuel processing technology

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced it has developed an innovative crystallisation refining technology for the purification and separation of nuclear materials from used nuclear fuel.

Waste & Recycling 04 June 2024

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UK plans near surface disposal of intermediate level waste

Rosatom announces novel used fuel processing technology

Dutch regulator issues permit for Urenco waste store

Italian interim storage facility takes shape

RWE permitted to dismantle Gundremmingen plant

KHNP deploys four-legged robot in Kori decommissioning

Clean-up completed of pioneering ORNL site reactor

France sets out long-term nuclear recycling plans

Waste transfer milestone at Scottish plant

RWE permitted to dismantle Gundremmingen plant

RWE permitted to dismantle Gundremmingen plant

German utility RWE announced it has received the third and final licence from the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection to decommission and dismantle the former Gundremmingen nuclear power plant.

Waste & Recycling 31 May 2024

UK plans near surface disposal of intermediate level waste

UK plans near surface disposal of intermediate level waste

In its updated strategy for handling nuclear waste and radioactive substances, the UK proposes to use a shallower disposal facility for suitable intermediate-level waste which was previously earmarked for the planned deep geological disposal facility.

Waste & Recycling 21 May 2024

Dutch regulator issues permit for Urenco waste store

Dutch regulator issues permit for Urenco waste store

The Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection has granted the final permit to Urenco for the construction and operation of a new radioactive waste storage facility at its Almelo site. The uranium enrichment company was last year granted permission to build the facility prior to the permit being issued.

Waste & Recycling 15 May 2024

KHNP deploys four-legged robot in Kori decommissioning

KHNP deploys four-legged robot in Kori decommissioning

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power's radiation-measuring robot is being used for the first time in the dismantling and decontamination of the 576 MWe pressurised water reactor.

Waste & Recycling 13 May 2024

Clean-up completed of pioneering ORNL site reactor

Clean-up completed of pioneering ORNL site reactor

The Low Intensity Test Reactor, known as Building 3005, was built in 1949 as a criticality testing facility that used highly enriched fuel with water as a coolant, and operated until 1968 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA.

Waste & Recycling 07 May 2024

South Bruce signs hosting agreement with NWMO

South Bruce signs hosting agreement with NWMO

The agreement between the municipality of South Bruce and Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization  was signed following a vote by the municipality's council on 1 May. The area is one of two potential host sites for a deep geologic repository selected in a process launched by the organisation in 2010.

Waste & Recycling 02 May 2024

Waste transfer milestone at Scottish plant

Waste transfer milestone at Scottish plant

The retrieval has been completed of more than 2100 tonnes of solid intermediate-level radioactive waste from five above-ground concrete bunkers at the Hunterston A Magnox nuclear power plant in Scotland. The project began 20 years ago.

Waste & Recycling 12 April 2024

AMG forms new company to promote MOX technology

AMG forms new company to promote MOX technology

Dutch specialty metals company AMG Critical Materials NV has created a new company - named NewMOX SAS - to develop commercial facilities for the production of mixed plutonium-uranium oxide fuel using AMG's sintering furnace systems.

Waste & Recycling 05 April 2024