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‘Dry as King Tut’s tomb’: Photos released of canisters holding San Onofre nuclear waste
22 Oct 2025 19:19 GMT
… enclosed in casks that store radioactive waste at the plant.
… of Del Mar. “Spent nuclear fuel is the most toxic material … 12 canisters are filled with radioactive debris from the dismantlement … more, even if no federal repository is forthcoming,” Agran said, …
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Nuclear Waste Disposal Innovator Deep Isolation Appoints Renée Hornbaker to Board of Directors
21 Oct 2025 12:00 GMT
… horizontal, vertical, or slanted borehole repositories. Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister … support integrated management of spent fuel and high-level waste from … high-profile events involving nuclear power facilities or radioactive materials; our liquidity …
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Sweden is building long-term nuclear fuel storage facility
20 Oct 2025 17:48 GMT
Sweden is building long-term nuclear fuel storage facility
20 October 2025 … +04:00)
A groundbreaking underground nuclear fuel repository is currently under construction near … the Forsmark nuclear power plant, in the Söderviken …
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Cruz introduces bill to advance nuclear fuel recycling, research, safety
19 Oct 2025 16:17 GMT
… recycling spent nuclear fuel compared to interim storage solutions.
“Spent nuclear fuel has … methods for new recycled fuel and radioactive waste streams for byproducts … a permanent geologic repository,” NEI SVP and Chief Nuclear Officer Doug True …
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Irvine Considers Leading Safer Nuclear Waste Storage at San Onofre: Will Laguna Beach join in?
18 Oct 2025 04:05 GMT
… .6 million pounds of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel (SNF) stored in temporary … to create a permanent geologic repository for the nation’s commercial … ” (CIS) facilities until a geologic repository materializes. So far, such efforts …
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Sens. Cruz, Heinrich, Introduce Bill Advancing Research in Nuclear Fuel Recycling
17 Oct 2025 14:54 GMT
… advancing commercial recycling of used nuclear fuel. The proposed legislation reflects growing … of in a permanent geologic repository.”
Read the bill text here … remaining challenges to recycling spent nuclear fuel. Sen. Cruz first introduced this …
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Tunnelling industry expands cooperation on waste repositories
16 Oct 2025 03:58 GMT
… , Director of the Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, met … facilities (GDFs) for higher activity radioactive waste.
This cooperation builds on … in underground construction, and support repository designs that serve future generations …
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Most nuclear waste is 'stranded' in pools and temporary storage — and there's an obvious solution
15 Oct 2025 23:33 GMT
… 80 years of nuclear waste in the … repository can address these problems while providing a permanent solution for nuclear … operational disposal site for used nuclear fuel yet — but Finland … nuclear waste rages on. Would going all in on reprocessing used fuel …
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Plans for nuclear waste storage facility scrapped
15 Oct 2025 21:59 GMT
… Pilot Plant, an underground repository for nuclear material generated from weapons production … of SONGS. Loaded with spent fuel assemblies, the canisters have been … power and another 12 containing radioactive debris from dismantling the plant …
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How new technology would fuel a different kind of nuclear power plant
14 Oct 2025 20:25 GMT
… Richards said.
“The fuel rods are enriched uranium, radioactive,” he said. “ … essentially creates less spent nuclear fuel or nuclear waste,” he said.
… . We will have spent nuclear fuel, it will be removed … federal government has a final repository. It’s safe. …