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Fuel store nears completion in Taiwan
Fuel store nears completion in Taiwan

Trial operations are likely to start next year at Taiwan's first interim dry storage facility for used nuclear fuel.

Waste & Recycling · Monday, 31 October 2011
Contract for Bulgarian repository design
Contract for Bulgarian repository design
Bulgaria has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to an international consortium for the design of a national low- and intermediate-level waste repository on land adjacent to the Kozloduy nuclear power plant.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Nuclear fuel structures OK for disposal
Nuclear fuel structures OK for disposal
European scientists studying the geological disposal of high level radioactive waste have concluded that the process is "an effective isolation barrier for tens of thousands to millions of years."
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 21 October 2011
No clear alternative uses for Yucca Mountain
No clear alternative uses for Yucca Mountain
Alternative uses proposed for the Yucca Mountain site now that it has been withdrawn from consideration as the USA's permanent nuclear waste repository would face a number of challenges, a study has found.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Utilities sign up to use Texas repository
Utilities sign up to use Texas repository
A cooperative of 15 utilities from across the USA has entered into an agreement to dispose of low level radioactive waste in a soon-to-be-opened repository in Texas.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 17 October 2011
Swedish waste fees rise to reflect repository cost
Swedish waste fees rise to reflect repository cost

CORRECTED - The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has recommended a tripling of the fee paid by the country's nuclear power industry towards paying for management of the country's nuclear waste.

Waste & Recycling · Monday, 10 October 2011
Fuel removal begins at Sellafield pond
Fuel removal begins at Sellafield pond
Operations have started to remove nuclear fuel from the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) at the Sellafield site in the UK. The move marks the first time that fuel has been retrieved from the pond since the 1960s.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Yucca Mountain put on ice
Yucca Mountain put on ice
The Yucca Mountain project stands to be officially frozen in two weeks without a conclusion on its safety, the regulator has said, detailing its dismantling of various supporting measures.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Babcock to tackle Berkeley waste
Babcock to tackle Berkeley waste
Babcock has been awarded a contract by Magnox for an intermediate-level waste retrieval and processing project at the Berkeley site in the UK.
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 1 September 2011
Turbine hall comes down at Bradwell
Turbine hall comes down at Bradwell
The turbine hall at the shut down Bradwell nuclear power plant in Essex, UK, is being demolished as part of the plant's decommissioning. The hall is the largest single building on the site. Meanwhile, an innovative process is being used to clean the site's used fuel pool.
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 4 August 2011
Sellafield MOX plant to close
Sellafield MOX plant to close
The manufacture of mixed oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel at Sellafield is to stop "at the earliest practical opportunity" to reduce the financial risks to British taxpayers from events in Japan.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Second high radiation reading
Second high radiation reading
Another radiation hotspot has been found at the Fukushima Daiichi site - again in part of the emergency venting and filtration system.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 3 August 2011
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