explaining that nuclear waste would be stored in water-tight canisters. By 2026, Posiva plans to bury 3,250 copper canisters of waste, each measuring 17 feet long and containing about two tons of ...

A trio of Southern California lawmakers are making another effort to pass a federal law that would give priority to removing ...

A new nuclear waste shelter in Sweden, among the first in the world of its kind, follows political ambitions and a sudden ...

The nuclear program began here in the 1950s ... s the work of the NRC and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Waste canisters are inserted into those thick, heavy, shielded overpacks, which ...

Four Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) members travelled to Andalucia to visit the El Cabril low and ...

but they produce a significantly higher volume of nuclear waste. Despite concerns about nuclear waste, the development and deployment of microreactors continue to gain momentum, driven in part by ...

Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB), a nuclear fuel and waste management company owned ... it will store 12,000 tonnes of SNF in 6,000 copper canisters, shielded by bentonite and placed along ...

Thousands of tons of nuclear waste is generated during the nuclear ... Specifically, concerns have been raised by the use of copper canisters for corrosion resistance. While the authorities ...

FORT SMITH -- Community leaders have no plans to accept a nuclear waste site in Fort Smith ... note a 300-acre site could host up to 10,000 canisters. The U.S. has 3,200 spent nuclear fuel ...

This number jumps to 27,000 canisters when unprocessed nuclear waste is included, and experts advise that any permanent disposal facility will need to be able to store over 40,000 canisters.