Waste

Nuclear Power Plant

Chernobyl Laboratory Which Processed Radioactive Waste Destroyed by Russian Troops

Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, is under the control of Russian soldiers who are said to have destroyed a £6million lab used…

Nuclear Fuel

DOE Funds New Program to Recycle Used Nuclear Fuel, GE Conducting Innovative Related Research

The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that it would provide up to $48 million for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program that could …

Nuclear waste

UK Repatriates Australian Nuclear Waste

A consignment of intermediate-level radioactive waste has been safely returned to Australia from the Sellafield plant in the UK.

Nuclear Power Plant

Conflict in Ukraine Threatens Nuclear Power Plants and Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities; Operations Continue

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) said it maintained communications with the country’s NPPs and that all units “continued to operat…

Nuclear Fuel

Sweden’s Government Approves Construction of Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository

Sweden’s government in late January gave radioactive waste management company SKB the green light to proceed with a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent …

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA Says Ukraine Nuclear Power Plants Running Safely, No 'Destruction' at Chernobyl

Ukraine's operational nuclear power plants are running safely and there has been no "destruction" at the remaining waste and other facilities at Chernobyl, …

Nuclear waste

India’s Mismanagement of Nuclear Waste

Since the establishment of Indian nuclear program, India has not adopted appropriate mechanism for the radioactive waste management.

Hydropower Plant

VerdErg Launches New Low-Cost Micro Hydropower Product

VerdErg Renewable Energy has launched the concept development of VETT-in-a-Box, a new ‘plug & play’ micro hydropower system for generating electricity from sm…

Virgin Group and Agilyx Form Strategic Partnership to Produce Lower Carbon Aviation Fuel from Plastic Waste

Virgin Group and chemical conversion technology company Agilyx (earlier post) are forming a strategic partnership to research and develop lower carbon fuel faci…

Nuclear waste

Sellafield Waste Transfer Facility Completes Test Run

The Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store has successfully completed its first dry run of a storage box being transferred from road to its long-term storage vau…

Nuclear waste

UK Launches Consolidated Radwaste Organisation

Nuclear Waste Services has been launched, bringing together into one organisation site operator Low Level Waste Repository Limited, geological disposal facility…

Nuclear waste

US National Labs Support International Waste Disposal Research

GTS's HotBENT 2021 operational overview video shows one of the heaters being installed inside the Grimsel tunnelheater installed in the Grimsel tunnel

Nuclear waste

China Opposes Japanese Decision to Release Nuclear-Contaminated Water into Ocean

China is seriously concerned about and firmly opposes Japan's unilateral decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated water into the sea and its proceeding wi…

Hydrogen Project

Mote Begins Engineering Work on Biomass-to-Hydrogen Plant with Carbon Capture

Start-up Mote is establishing its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering CO2 emissions resulting f…

Nuclear waste

Japan Urged to Revoke Decision to Dump Nuclear Wastewater After Study Finds Fukushima Radioactive Material Reaches Arctic Ocean

A small amount of the radiocesium was detected and Yuichiro speculated that it had spread to the center of the Arctic Ocean.