A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep underground. Schemes take many years to plan, and many more years to build, but ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

Canada’s NWMO has launched the regulatory process to licence a deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel in ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies to work with to design and plan the deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel that will be built in northwestern Ontario.

The latest major step in the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s push for a massive underground storage site for spent ...

China has completed a complex spiral access ramp at the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory, one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world designed for managing radioactive waste.  The ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

Deep Isolation Nuclear, an innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, on January 13 said the company has successfully ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO) is proposing a new underground deep geological repository system designed to safely contain and isolate used nuclear fuel near Ignace, Ontario. As ...

The Township of Ignace and its Community Engagement Committee are geared up to host the first community engagement sessions in Ignace on Jan. 19 and 20. The sessions will feature ...

Geological disposal, optimized materials and greater use of digital tools to enhance communication with stakeholders are among the innovations the nuclear industry is developing to address outstanding ...

There is no permanent nuclear waste repository in the United States. Instead, nuclear waste is stored in dry casks at the locations of currently operating and former nuclear power plants around the ...