Waste management

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 Power Plant

Jacobs Wins Two Nuclear Contracts in Czech Republic

US-based Jacobs said that it had won two new contracts to support the Czech nuclear sector with radioactive waste management services.

Nuclear waste

Slovenia Considers Deep Borehole Disposal

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation has been awarded a contract to conduct a borehole feasibility study for ARAO, Slovenia's radioactive waste mana…

Nuclear Policy

Finland Publishes Draft Programme on Used Fuel and Radwaste Management

The ministries and Stuk requested comments on the draft programme and environmental report from authorities, operators in the sector, citizens and communities b…

Nuclear waste

Swedish Government Must Consider Applications in Parallel, Says SKB

On 20 June, the government asked the radioactive waste management company how it intends to separate the application for the final repository.

Natural Gas

Waga Energy’s Landfill Biogas Recovery Technology Gains Popularity in Canada with Second Installation Contract

Waga Energy has secured a contract with the Brome-Missisquoi Intermunicipal Waste Management Board to produce biomethane at the Cowansville landfill site in Qu…

Nuclear Power Plant

UK's NDA Launches New Nuclear Transport Division

The NDA is also in the process of integrating its radioactive waste management businesses.

Nuclear waste

IAEA Designates New Collaborating Centre in Slovakia on Decommissioning and Waste Management

The IAEA has designated the Slovak Nuclear and Decommissioning Company as a Collaborating Centre to support IAEA Member States on nuclear facility decommissioni…

Nuclear Fuel

Preparations Begin for Canadian Borehole

Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organisation has begun preparations for the drilling of two boreholes in the South Bruce area prior to site selection for a de…

Nuclear Policy

IAEA Sees Germany As Key Member, Despite Nuclear Phaseout

Decommissioning and waste management will be important areas for future cooperation between Germany and the IAEA, he said.

Thermal Plant

Viridor Selects Valmet to Service Six UK Waste-to-Energy Plants

Viridor, one of the largest recycling, energy recovery, and waste management companies in the UK, has selected Finnish automation systems company Valmet to main…

Nuclear waste

Waste Storage Facility to be Built in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region

Russia’s national operator for waste management, NO RAO, has received a licence to build a final isolation point for radioactive waste in Ozersk.

Thermal Plant

KenGen Seeks to Build a Waste to Energy Plant Via Bidding Process

The Nairobi Metropolitan Services – responsible for solid waste management in the city county – has partnered with Kenya Electricity Generating Company to est…

NWMO to Begin Field Studies at Canadian Repository Site

The Canadian Radioactive Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) will focus its activities in South Bruce, Ontario on safety and protecting the environment, the or…

Nuclear waste

IAEA Commends French Nuclear Waste Programme

The International Atomic Energy Agency has released the final report from its January 2018 mission to France to review radioactive waste management and decommis…