The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep underground. Schemes take many years to plan, and many more years to build, but ...

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 ...

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 Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies to work with to design and plan the deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel that will be built in northwestern Ontario.

Canada’s NWMO has launched the regulatory process to licence a deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel in ...

ANDRA. (n.d.) Stepwise development of Cigéo and timeline of the associated decisions. https://international.andra.fr/stepwise-development-cigeo-and-timeline ...

This presentation explores the role of microorganisms in the engineered barrier system of a deep geological repository (DGR) for used nuclear fuel, with a focus on bentonite clay and surrounding ...

The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated and lushly forested island in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki.

As small modular nuclear reactors come closer to reality in the U.S., managing and disposing of their highly radioactive waste should be a national priority. Forty years after the passage of the ...

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 ...

Finland is moving forward with a revolutionary solution for how to dispose of high-level nuclear waste and spent fuel from atomic reactors. Among the greatest challenges of the nuclear era remains ...