Waste

Civil • Waste

The Spent Fuel Storage Debate Heats Up in the House

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. 

Commercial • Waste

Deep Isolation Is Thinking Ahead

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 […]

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