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Fusion technology company SHINE Technologies has selected Deep Isolation's technology as its preferred solution for storage and disposal of the high-level waste that will remain as a residue after deployment of SHINE's technology for recycling used nuclear fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/SHINE-chooses-Deep-Isolation-waste-disposal-techno
US-based nuclear waste storage and disposal company Deep Isolation has completed a study for Shine Technologies, which is developing solutions to recycle used nuclear fuel by designing facilities to reduce the volume of waste requiring deep geologic disposal.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-study-reveals-potential-for-reduction-in-high-level-nuclear-waste-volumes-11552413
Pairing a used fuel recycling facility with deep borehole disposal technology could reduce the total volume of waste requiring disposal in a deep geologic repository by greater than 90%, a study by Deep Isolation and SHINE Technologies has found.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Collaboration-points-way-to-potential-reductions-i
Moltex Energy aims to deploy first-of-a-kind SSR-W plant at Point Lepreau
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 13 January 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/canada-grants-patent-for-innovative-spent-nuclear-fuel-recycling-process-1-5-2024
The first three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel containing transuranic elements americium-241 and neptunium-237 have been produced by Rosatom's Mining and Chemical Combine.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mixed-oxide-fuel-with-minor-actinides-produced-for
Technology has potential to revolutionalise energy sector
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-aims-for-pilot-commercial-plant-within-a-decade-says-granholm-9-4-2023
In a new report, “What a waste: How fast-fission power can provide clean energy from nuclear waste”, environmental group RePlanet advocates recycling used nuclear fuel as fuel for advanced fast reactors. While Europe's nuclear power reactors "have a long history of safe use, and have provided prodigious quantities of clean electricity for decades", they use less than 1% of the energy potential in the natural uranium used to make their fuel, the report notes. Moreover, irradiated fuel assemblies removed from reactors are considered “nuclear waste”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 07 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenvironmental-group-urges-use-of-fast-reactors-10738853
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Savannah River Site (SRS) says the H Canyon facility recently initiated actions to recycle a small amount of used highly enriched uranium (HEU) stored in the Site’s H Area in order to down-blend it into high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU). “The projected demand for HALEU far exceeds the current supply,” said HALEU Programme Manager Jeff Hasty for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the site’s managing and operating contractor.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshaleu-production-planned-for-savannah-river-site-as-clean-up-continues-10731144
If existing inventories of used nuclear fuel were recycled and repurposed as fuel for advanced fast reactors, it could generate zero-carbon electricity for Europe for up to 1000 years, according to international environmental campaign group RePlanet.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Extract-energy-from-used-nuclear-fuel,-says-enviro
In a report on the future of nuclear fission, the US-based NIA says advanced nuclear energy has the potential to greatly reduce carbon emissions by mid-century and help achieve 100% clean energy in the US. But this promise can only be achieved with “the timely, efficient and widespread deployment of advanced reactors”.
The report warns that the US will need to rebuild the supply chain, complete nuclear projects on time and on budget, create incentives for deployment and enact policies that enable private investment.
The report cites other conditions for success that it says are critical to the successful deployment of advanced reactors. They include modernising advanced nuclear energy regulation, making progress on spent nuclear fuel, getting siting right and prioritising environmental and energy justice. This would ensure, for example, that communities benefit from the repurposing of retiring fossil fuel infrastructure with advanced reactors.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 21 April 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/think-tank-calls-for-timely-efficient-and-widespread-deployment-of-advanced-reactors-4-3-2022