Nuclear waste disposal: Deep boreholes emerge as economical alternative

ByChris Parker

09 May 22

New research affirms that there is growing interest worldwide in deep boreholes as an option for the disposal…

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Nuclear waste management: A robotic system to categorise and sort radioactive waste

ByFrank Querfurth and Carsten Demel

18 Apr 22

A robotic-assisted handling system, which is being developed in the Virero project to categorise and sort radioactive waste…

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Sweden approves construction of spent nuclear fuel storage facility

By NS Energy Staff Writer

28 Jan 22

To be designed to bury the spent fuel for the next 100,000 years, the facility will store highly…

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An insight into Japan’s contentious plans to release contaminated water from Fukushima

By James Murray

15 Apr 21

Japan has announced it will release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean…

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IAEA pledges to support Japan’s plans for Fukushima wastewater disposal

By Andrew Fawthrop

13 Apr 21

More than one million tonnes of treated radioactive water are to be flushed into the Pacific Ocean as…

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Wheelabrator Kemsley (K3) Generating Station

The Wheelabrator Kemsley (K3) generating station is a 49.9MW waste-to-energy combined heat and power (CHP) generating facility located…

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UK launches RSO to support research into safe nuclear waste disposal

By NS Energy Staff Writer

05 Aug 20

RWM RSO will support research into the safe geological disposal of the higher activity radioactive wastes

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Atkins joins new Industrial Consortium backing Sizewell C

By NS Energy Staff Writer

15 Jul 20

Consortium intends to sign MOUs with UK regions and for 70% of construction value to go to UK…

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Belgrade Waste-to-Energy Project

The Belgrade waste-to-energy project is a 103MW heat and electricity generating project being developed in public-private partnership (PPP)…

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Diamond power forever? Nuclear waste could be turned into ‘near-infinite’ batteries

By Andrew Fawthrop

19 Mar 20

Scientists have refined a technique to make diamond batteries using irradiated nuclear waste that could last thousands of…

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