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Mississippi futuregazing at waste facility
Mississippi futuregazing at waste facility
A Mississippi business group has formally urged the state's senate to consider establishing a dedicated management centre to provide interim storage for used nuclear fuel, with a longer-term view to recycling and even final disposal.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Surge in Sellafield apprenticeships
Surge in Sellafield apprenticeships
Apprentice (Sellafield Ltd) 72x48A record number of young people are to start courses leading to employment at the UK's nuclear fuel cycle centre, Sellafield.
Corporate · Friday, 23 August 2013
Swiss utilities face waste hike
Swiss utilities face waste hike
The Swiss cabinet has proposed a raise in targets for waste and decommissioning funds that would lead to a hike of some 76% in annual utility contributions next year. A consultation is being launched this month.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 16 August 2013
US court rules on Yucca Mountain
US court rules on Yucca Mountain
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) acted illegally by abandoning the review of the licence application for the Yucca Mountain waste repository, the US Court of Appeals has ruled.
Regulation & Safety · Wednesday, 14 August 2013
More room at WIPP
More room at WIPP
WIPP Panel 7 (WIPP)_48A new panel of seven waste disposal rooms at the world's only operating geological radwaste repository is ready and waiting to start receiving defence-related transuranic waste.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 5 August 2013
Making space at Sellafield
Making space at Sellafield
Plasma cutting a skip at Sellafield 63x48New cutting and decontamination methods are being trialled to clear away old equipment more quickly and free space to store higher priority wastes at Sellafield.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Fukushima waste incinerator takes shape
Fukushima waste incinerator takes shape
Fukushima solid waste plant 48Construction of an incinerator is underway at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to burn the low-level waste being generated from the clean-up and decommissioning of the site.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 1 July 2013
NRC moves on used fuel storage
NRC moves on used fuel storage
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has released separate draft documents detailing the safety and environmental implications of methods for storing used fuel from nuclear reactors. Both will be open for public comment.
Regulation & Safety · Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Moab tailings clean-up milestone
Moab tailings clean-up milestone
Moab tailings clean-up 48Over one-third of the 16 million tonnes of tailings from the former Moab uranium mill in Utah have now been transferred to a nearby site for disposal.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Fine for misdirected waste shipment
Fine for misdirected waste shipment
Sellafield ariel (Sellafield Ltd)-48Sellafield Ltd has been fined £700,000 ($1.1 million) for mistakenly sending four bags of low-level waste to a conventional landfill instead of the correct facility.
Regulation & Safety · Monday, 17 June 2013
Innovation cash for back-end technology
Innovation cash for back-end technology
Sizewell A defuelling (Magnox)_48Three innovative technologies to reduce the costs of treating and storing nuclear industry wastes are to receive funding in Britain, while a major decommissioning milestone is being celebrated at one of the country's first-generation sites.
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 6 June 2013
Dounreay waste retrieval deal
Dounreay waste retrieval deal
Dounreay silo waste (DSRL)UK-based engineering company James Fisher Nuclear has won a £5 million ($7.6 million) contract for the retrieval and processing of radioactive waste from a 65-metre deep shaft and a wet silo at the Dounreay site.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 20 May 2013
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