Waste

Nuclear Equipment

Belgium to Use Urgent Procedure Status for Nuclear Phase-Out Law

General view of the Tihange Nuclear Power Station is seen after the Belgian government agreed in principle to close its two nuclear power plants by 2025, in Tih…

Nuclear waste

Licensing of El Cabril Expansion Progresses

The Spanish government has issued the Environmental Impact Statement for the project to construct the southeast platform for the disposal of low and intermediat…

Nuclear waste

Japan Starts 4th Discharge of Nuclear-Contaminated Water Despite Backlash

Japan started the fourth release of the nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean at around 11:30 a…

Nuclear waste

4th Fukushima Treated Radioactive Water Release to Start Wednesday

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start releasing the fourth round of treated radioactive water into the ocean on Wednesda…

Nuclear waste

Fukushima Plant Operator Warned Over Contaminated Water Leak

Japan's government has warned Tokyo Electric Power Co. after contaminated water was found to have leaked from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power p…

Nuclear waste

Nuvia to Carry out Ringhals Decommissioning Work

Nuvia, a subsidiary of France's Vinci construction group, has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall to remove, inspect and sort the radioactive and other ma…

Nuclear waste

IAEA Reaffirms Japan's Treated Water Release in Line With Standards

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Japan's discharge of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the se…

Nuclear waste

Nukem Completes Mock-up of Waste Cementation System

Germany's Nukem Technologies Engineering Services GmbH - a subsidiary of Russia's Atomstroyexport - announced that the experimental setup for its state-…

Nuclear waste

Advanced Nuclear Fuel Arrives at INLfor Testing

Westinghouse Electric Company has shipped 25 irradiated experimental nuclear fuel rods, including accident-tolerant fuel, to Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for…

Nuclear waste

First New Panel in a Decade at US Waste Facility

Work has started on mining a new panel at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Panel 11 is the first of two waste emplace…

Wind Turbine

China Proposes First Standards for Recycling Wind Turbines to Manage Imminent Surge of Retired Equipment

Proposed standards prioritise reuse and recycling of wind blades while banning landfilling and burning. By 2030, 35 million tonnes of waste from decommissioned …

Nuclear waste

Japan's Tepco to Start Fourth Release of Treated Fukushima Water in Late Feb

FILE PHOTO: A member of staff walks near a blue pipeline to transport seawater, part of the facility for releasing treated radioactive water to sea from the Fuk…

Nuclear Reactor

Moltex Recycling Process Granted Canadian Patent

The patent covers Moltex Energy Canada's Waste To Stable Salt (WATSS) process for converting any uranium oxide fuel into molten salt reactor fuel, part of a…

Nuclear waste

IAEA Sees Belgian Commitment to Waste Management

Belgium has a robust national infrastructure for the management of radioactive waste and used fuel, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission has sai…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Japan Earthquake Casts Cloud Over Push to Restart Nuclear Plants

Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, which is the world's biggest, is seen from the seaside in Kashiwazaki, Novemb…