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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite growing support for nuclear energy nationally and here in Wyoming, there are simply too many concerns to entertain ...

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear ...

Sweden has initiated the construction of a repository for the long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in Söderviken, close to the Forsmark nuclear power plant. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste ...

Sweden has started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years.

Hazardous work to remove all spent nuclear fuel from a reactor storage pool at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was finally completed Feb. 28, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. It marked ...

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 ...

This includes the Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, as well as the two conventions that ...

Sweden has commenced construction of a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. Currently, there are thousands of metric tons ...