Sweden is moving forward with plans for a nuclear-powered future after breaking ground on a final storage site for spent nuclear fuel. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) got started last week on a spent fuel repository (SFR) near the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant. Once complete, the repository will be the second-of-its-kind […]
It’s been a long time coming for a waste disposal project in Sweden. Now, it’s finally happening. After about 13 years pursuing a long-term waste repository project with Swedish regulators, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) has officially secured an environmental permit from the Land and Environment Court to build and operate nuclear waste repositories. The permit […]
The US House of Representatives’ Energy, Climate, and Grid Security subcommittee held a hearing yesterday to boost efforts to handle spent nuclear fuel, and some researchers are sounding the alarm on the risks of waste mismanagement amid an impending US nuclear revival.
Deep Isolation and its partners have built a first prototype of a nuclear waste disposal canister. It’s an important step toward a working system to safely dispose of spent fuel in boreholes deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Buried deep: Deep Isolation is on a mission to develop a long-term solution for disposing of nuclear waste […]
