This publication identifies issues and challenges relevant to the development and implementation of options, policies, strategies and programmes for ensuring safe, secure and effective storage of ...

The publication is intended to facilitate evaluation of the costs and benefits of design concepts or design changes for storage or transport systems, and to help in selecting appropriate methods for ...

Atlas rail car, specially designed to transport spent nuclear fuel (U.S. Department of Energy) Many Southern Californians have expressed profound doubts about the safety of transporting ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

As northwest Colorado loses coal jobs and dollars, a small group is raising the possibility of nuclear waste storage as a replacement. Community leaders in coal country have mixed feelings about the ...

Mori acknowledged that the amount is limited and promised to “explore all possibilities” to transport more spent nuclear fuel from the plants. If it cannot find a candidate site by the end of ...

such as those utilized in reactor cores and in the disposal of spent nuclear fuel, and discusses the importance of understanding radiation effects on these materials and related processes over a ...

The transport involved waste remaining after the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from Germany in La Hague, France. Germany is obliged under international law to take back these remnants.

FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste ...

MUTSU, Aomori Prefecture--Spent nuclear fuel from Niigata Prefecture arrived here on Sept. 26 en route to a newly opened interim storage facility, a significant step in managing Japan's nuclear waste.

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached ... including encapsulation, transportation, and final emplacement in bedrock.