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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.

Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshaleu-production-planned-for-savannah-river-site-as-clean-up-continues-10731144

‘New sense of urgency’ on spent fuel and high-level waste Spent nuclear fuel in an interim pool at the Pickering nuclear power station in Canada. Courtesy OPG. Deep Isolation and Amentum have signed a memorandum of agreement to work together to further the commercialisation of Deep Isolation’s nuclear waste disposal technology in what could be a multi-billion-dollar market around the world.

Initial targets for joint work include countries in Europe and the Pacific that represent a combined addressable market for geologic disposal of spent fuel and high-level waste worth more than $30bn (€29bn), California, US-based Deep Isolation said.

The company said “there is a new sense of urgency” to dispose of nuclear waste. Low-carbon nuclear energy is a powerful alternative to fossil fuels in the fight against climate change, but much of the world is requiring a waste solution to be in place before investments are made in new nuclear power installations.

Deep Isolation’s deep borehole technology uses directional drilling practices to isolate waste deep underground in borehole repositories, providing many countries with an alternative to a traditional mined repository.

Date: Friday, 12 August 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/deep-isolation-aims-for-multi-billion-dollar-market-with-deep-borehole-disposal-technology-8-4-2022

Russia has asked for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi to brief an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council about the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Meanwhile G7 foreign ministers have demanded Russia "hand back full control" of the plant "to its rightful sovereign owner, Ukraine".

Date: Thursday, 11 August 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/G7-demands-Russia-hand-over-Zaporizhzhia,-Russia-c

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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”.

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.

Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NWMO-publishes-transportation-planning-documents