The pace and scale of the upswing in interest and ambitions in countries wishing to expand or introduce nuclear power is astonishing. While large, advanced reactors (ARs) are central to many plans for ...

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO) is proposing a new underground deep geological repository system designed to safely contain and isolate used nuclear fuel near Ignace, Ontario. As ...

The United States Department of Energy released a Draft Plan for a Defense Waste Repository for public comment on December 16, 2016. The Defense Waste Repository would only be for nuclear waste ...

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions interns recently performed an inventory of the Geological Core Repository, a warehouse of sediment and rock cores from across the Savannah River Site. The SRS ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

The development of Canada's deep geological repository entered the regulatory decision-making process on Monday, after the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) submitted the Initial Project ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and partner national laboratories will compare their Geologic Disposal Safety Assessment software framework to the safety assessment ...

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has submitted further information on its proposed deep geologic repository for low- and intermediate-level waste to Canadian regulators. The studies, carried out in ...

Two weeks ago, a Canadian joint review panel recommended to Leona Aglukkaq, Canada's environment minister, to bury low-level and intermediate-level used nuclear materials 2,230 feet (680 meters) below ...

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has submitted documents that suggest its plan to permanently store low-level and intermediate-level nuclear waste close to its Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in ...