nuclear waste repositories

According to a report from NDR, North German Public Radio, there are hundreds of barrels of low-level nuclear waste at an interim storage facility in the town of .... The Konrad mine in Lower Saxony, which has been slated to be the repository for low-level nuclear waste, will probably not be ready until 2027.

Some community members are using it to bring awareness to what they say are dangers of shipping and storing nuclear waste in the state. The area already has the ... Now, a company called Holtec International is proposing another underground storage site between Carlsbad and Hobbs. Nuclear waste ...

The Holtec facility could store up to 100,000 tons of nuclear reactor waste for as long as 120 years, or until a permanent repository is built. The NRC's 60-day public comment period on the site licensing application is open until May 29. Public meetings will be held April 30 in Roswell, May 1 in Hobbs and ...

The Holtec facility could store up to 100,000 tons of nuclear reactor waste for as long as 120 years, or until a permanent repository is built. The NRC's 60-day public comment period on the site licensing application is open until May 29. Public meetings will be held April 30 in Roswell, May 1 in Hobbs and ...

Contrast that with the underground repository for nuclear waste that recently opened on Olkiluoto Island, Finland. In that case, officials found a community that was open to the idea, then let locals shape the project. “Countries need to educate and work with the people,” Vestergaard says. “It doesn't matter if ...

Saudi Arabia is planning to escalate its isolation of regional rival Qatar by using nuclear waste and a 650-foot wide canal to turn its neighbor into an island. According to reports in the state-linked al-Riyadh and Sabq newspapers, the project—which would establish a military zone, nuclear waste dump and ...

Kimba's mayor and council have also dismissed calls for a peninsula-wide or statewide vote on the waste dump. The Government is due to decide within months whether to build a national radioactive waste repository at one of two sites near Kimba or another near Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Before the ...

The method involves placing muon detectors on opposite sides of a storage cask and tracking the trajectories of muons that pass through the casks. Muons easily penetrate the thick outer layers of the casks, and their trajectories are particularly affected by the presence of heavy elements like plutonium.

Anyone who's spent enough time in Nevada to have heard the debate over the proposed high level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain is familiar with the concern about transporting radioactive materials. This stuff is much different, much less hazardous, but the potential for an accident still raises ...

The storage facility would ultimately hold about 120,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel rods taken from nuclear power plants across the country. The waste would be held at Holtech until a permanent repository can be developed. One such facility was proposed in Yucca Mountain, Nevada, but was put on ...

Waste Control Specialists (WCS) and Orano USA intend to revive licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Andrews County, Texas, where spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from reactors across the country can be stored until a permanent repository is developed. The companies said on March 13, ...

A repository for spent nuclear fuel rods was proposed to be built in west Texas, even as a southeast New Mexican consortium hopes for a similar facility near ... The move would augment WCS' 14,000-acre facility in west Texas, which is licensed for low-grade nuclear waste, but not for spent nuclear fuel.

Four decades after radiation leaked from a landfill for nuclear waste near Barnwell, unsafe levels of radioactive pollution continue to contaminate ... Rain that falls mixes with radioactive materials in the burial pits and trickles into the groundwater, said environmental lawyer Amy Armstrong, who is ...

The subductive waste disposal method, invented by this writer, too eliminates nuclear and toxic waste materials beneath the seabed, in repositories ... The World Nuclear Association has identified a number of international nuclear waste disposal concepts including; a European regional repository, similar ...