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Several countries have shown interest in alternative disposal method, says agency
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/iaea-project-will-help-lay-groundwork-for-large-scale-demonstration-8-1-2023
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) said it had completed a full-scale demonstration of the engineered barriers that will safely contain and isolate Canada’s used nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository. This was the culmination of more than eight years of preparation, including the design and fabrication of specialised prototype equipment and components by the NWMO’s team of technical specialists and engineering partners.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 16 June 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadas-nwmo-completes-successful-engineering-demonstration-9775500
After more than eight years of preparation, Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has completed a full-scale demonstration of the engineered barriers that will safely contain and isolate the country's used nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 08 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Repository-engineering-demonstration-success-for-N
The Swedish government has decided to allow SKB to build a final repository for used nuclear fuel in Forsmark in Östhammar Municipality and an encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 01 February 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsswedish-government-approves-skbs-final-repository-system-9448895
The Swedish approval allows SKB, the developer of Sweden’s deep geological repository, to take final steps and preparations for initial construction of the facility close to the Forsmark nuclear power station, about 140 km north of Stockholm.
“It is an historic decision that gives SKB the opportunity to dispose of the nuclear waste that our generation has created,” said SKB’s chief executive officer Johan Dasht. “That is a very welcome message. We are now looking forward to implementing Sweden’s largest environmental protection project.”
SKB said the project involves investments “in the order of” SEK 19 billion (€1.8bn) and will create approximately 1,500 jobs. The project is being financed by contributions that have already been made by nuclear operators to a national nuclear waste fund.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 29 January 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/government-approves-skb-s-plans-for-final-repository-for-spent-nuclear-fuel-1-5-2022
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on 21 January that significant progress had been made in the safe and effective management of radioactive waste globally.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 25 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-report-looks-at-radioactive-waste-and-used-fuel-management-9422915
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) in early January released two planning documents that, it said, “address the wide range of priorities, questions and concerns heard to date from Canadians and Indigenous peoples about the transportation of used nuclear fuel”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadas-nwmo-releases-transportation-plans-9388048
Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) has released two planning documents that address the wide range of priorities, questions and concerns heard to date from Canadians and Indigenous peoples about the transportation of used nuclear fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NWMO-publishes-transportation-planning-documents
The NWMO is considering two locations for the repository: a remote site about 35 km west of Ignace, northwestern Ontario, and one near the existing Bruce nuclear power station in southwestern Ontario.
It said transportation is an essential part of Canada’s plan for long-term management of the country’s used nuclear fuel. The used fuel will need to be moved from interim storage facilities near reactor sites across Canada to the deep geological repository site. The transportation programme is expected to begin in the 2040s, once the repository is operational.
The agency wants to have selected a repository site by 2023. It says it will not choose a site where there is opposition to the facility.
As of June last year, there were just over three million spent fuel bundles temporarily stored at eight interim storage facilities across Canada.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 08 January 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/waste-organisation-unveils-plans-for-spent-nuclear-fuel-transport-1-5-2022
Deep borehole disposal is a viable, cost-effective solution for all of the intermediate and high-level long-lived radioactive waste (ILW/HLW) that is being temporarily stored by five European countries, according to a feasibility study by Deep Isolation. The study was commissioned by Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) on behalf of the European Repository Development Organisation (ERDO), a multinational group established in 2021 to address the challenges of safely managing long-lived radioactive wastes either separately or in one combined mined repository.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Deep-borehole-disposal-suitable-for-ERDO-countries