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IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, during an official visit to Sweden, travelled to the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, where research is underway 500 metres below ground. The laboratory is located on an island north of the town of Oskarshamn near the Oskarshamn NPP.

Date: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-director-general-grossi-visits-swedens-sp-hard-rock-laboratory-11121912

Slovenia has a "comprehensive, robust and well-functioning system" for used nuclear fuel and radioactive waste management, a team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded. However, it noted areas where it could be further enhanced.

Date: Wednesday, 08 June 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-assesses-Slovenia-s-radwaste-programme

Hungary is committed to the safe and effective management of used nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, a team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded. However, it noted areas where it could be further enhanced.

Date: Wednesday, 06 April 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hungarian-radwaste-management-system-robust,-says

Power company Ukrenergo says hostilities making it impossible to restore power supply The Chernobyl nuclear station and all nuclear facilities in the exclusion zone have been left without electricity. Courtesy Chornobyl NPP. Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has called for a ceasefire to allow repairs to be carried out to restore the electricity supply to the Chernobyl nuclear power station and facilities within the 30-km exclusion zone around the shut-down facility.

Ukraine’s state power operator Energoatom earlier said Russian forces have disconnected the nuclear power station – which does not have any reactors in commercial operation – from the grid. The state-run company said a high-voltage line had been damaged by Russian forces and had been disconnected.

As a result, the Chernobyl station and all nuclear facilities in the exclusion zone were left without electricity, Energoatom said, warning that the situation could lead to the release of radioactive substances.

Energoatom said the loss of power “makes it impossible to control the parameters of nuclear and radiation safety at the plant”. Energy minister Herman Halushchenko confirmed safety data was no longer being received from the plant.

Earlier this week, Ukraine’s nuclear regulator SNRIU said safety and security parameters at Chernobyl were normal, but several neutron flux, gamma radiation dose rate and radiation pollution sensors at the New Safe Confinement (NSC) shelter failed, making it impossible to control a number of radiation parameters, Ukraine’s nuclear regulator SNRIU said.

Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/kyiv-calls-for-russian-ceasefire-to-allow-repairs-at-chernobyl-3-3-2022

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.

Date: Tuesday, 01 February 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsswedish-government-approves-skbs-final-repository-system-9448895

Construction will start in mid-2020s and take about 10 years to complete Construction of the final repository will start in mid-2020s and take about 10 years to complete. Courtesy SKB. The Swedish government has approved plans to build a final deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel at Forsmark in the municipality of Östhammar and an encapsulation facility near Oskarshamn in the municipality Oskarshamn.

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.

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

World Nuclear Association commends the recent publication of the Complementary Delegated Act that recognises the fundamental sustainability of nuclear energy and elevates it into the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy. Now the Commission must demonstrate its commitment to a truly technology neutral framework and make sure that criteria are consistent and scientifically justified, says World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León.

Date: Friday, 28 January 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Europes-clean-energy-dreams-should-incl

Construction of the final repository for used nuclear fuel in Forsmark and the associated fuel encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn can proceed, Sweden's Minister of Climate and Environment Annika Strandhäll has announced.

Date: Friday, 28 January 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Swedish-government-gives-go-ahead-for-used-fuel-re

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.

Date: Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-report-looks-at-radioactive-waste-and-used-fuel-management-9422915

Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva Oy has submitted its application for an operating licence for the used fuel encapsulation plant and final disposal facility currently under construction at Olkiluoto. The repository - the first in the world for used fuel - is expected to begin operations in the mid-2020s.

Date: Thursday, 06 January 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Posiva-applies-to-operate-used-fuel-disposal-repos