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'Just the first step': South Bruce signs nuclear waste hosting agreement
02 May 2024 17:25 GMT
… hosting agreement with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) … of that information,” said Nuclear Waste Management Site Selection Vice … don’t want the high-level loads of radiation going … host Canada’s most radioactive waste, forever. Before that …
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Uganda Receives IAEA Legislative Assistance to Strengthen its National Legal Framework for the Development of its Nuclear Power Programme
02 May 2024 15:21 GMT
… a high-level meeting in Kampala to discuss nuclear law … international legal frameworks for nuclear safety, security, … Radioactive Waste Management, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear … Instruments Relevant to Radioactive Waste and Sources” and …
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After years of negotiations, new government Hanford plan stirs up plans to treat radioactive waste
01 May 2024 05:57 GMT
… of much of the radioactive waste at Hanford will stay … built to help treat high-level waste;
The towering Pretreatment … .
“Allowing leaks from high-level nuclear waste tanks to continue for … wary of grouting any radioactive waste, instead of using glass …
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Japan Govt Asks Genkai to Accept N-Waste Site Survey
01 May 2024 11:55 GMT
… a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants.
Yasuhiro Matsuyama, deputy …
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Nevada can’t abide a senator who wants state to be nuclear waste dump
01 May 2024 09:22 GMT
… toward the safe disposal of high-level nuclear waste created the current untenable situation … posed by the transportation of radioactive nuclear waste to the facility.
In 2017 … a train derailed and spilled radioactive waste into a tributary of the …
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Hanford’s new plan to clean up 56 million gallons of nuclear waste
30 Apr 2024 21:41 GMT
The first low-activity-waste glassification plant is expected to handle only 40% to 50% of the low-activity wastes, depending on who is doing the estimating. That means it is likely another plant will need to be built, unless another solution takes its …
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New Cleanup Deadlines Announced for Hanford Nuclear Site
30 Apr 2024 16:45 GMT
… cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Site.
The deal proposes … of gallons of radioactive and chemical waste that remain in … feed approach for immobilizing high-level waste in glass, similar to … to support treating high-level waste
Retrieving waste from 22 tanks …
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Indigenous leaders decry lack of consent for nuclear waste on their homelands
30 Apr 2024 13:14 GMT
… questions about the high-level used nuclear fuel waste in temporary storage … a reactor creating toxic radioactive waste remaining hazardous for … a million-cubic-metre radioactive waste mound to be … site for a permanent radioactive waste dump. Consultation was …
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Japan Govt to Ask Genkai Town to Accept N-Waste Site Survey
30 Apr 2024 12:59 GMT
… a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants, it was learned …
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WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly, dangerous radioactive sites
30 Apr 2024 08:07 GMT
… the least-radioactive waste and 2033 for the high-level radioactive waste.
The COVID … radioactive waste.
The high-level tank waste is among the nation’s most dangerous nuclear waste … its process for preparing high-level radioactive waste for treatment at the …