radioactive waste News
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Scottish EPA seeks views on radioactive waste disposal guidance
The principles and requirements for near-surface disposal facilities dealing with radioactive waste have been set down in a new guidance document being consulted on by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). As Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA is responsible for ensuring that people and the environment are protected both now and in the future. The improved guidance is ...
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The Eighth European Commission Conference on the Management of Radioactive Waste
The use of nuclear power for the generation of electricity is not the only producer of radioactive waste, it is also produced by many other applications such as industrial tests and radiotherapies. Research on radioactive waste has been a significant area of activity under the 7th Euratom Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-13). The Implementing Geological Disposal Technology Platform (IGD-TP) ...
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US company seeks permit to import nuclear waste
Bart Gordon, the Tennessee Democrat who chairs the House Committee on Science and Technology, does not want the United States to receive low-level radioactive waste from Italy, process it in Tennessee and dispose of it in a Utah waste site. He says acceptance of the waste would put the U.S. on a path to becoming 'the world's nuclear garbage waste dump.' On Friday, Gordon asked the Northwest ...
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Clean-up continues at Chernobyl, 22 years on
Twenty-two years after the world’s most serious nuclear accident, work by the international community and the International Atomic Energy Agency continues apace to assist Belarus, Russian Federation and Ukraine. The work is moving into a new phase that aims to build upon progress already achieved and target the most pressing social and economic needs. The IAEA remains an active participant in ...
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Consultations on guidance for radioactive waste disposal facilities opened in UK
Safe disposal of solid radioactive waste is at the heart of guidance being launched for consultation by the Environment Agency. Joe McHugh, Head of Radioactive Substances Regulation at the Environment Agency, said: “As an independent environmental regulator, we aim to ensure that people and the environment are protected now and in the future, both during operation of radioactive waste disposal ...
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Nuclear safety in EU gets strong boost by commitment of nuclear regulators
Nuclear safety regulators from all 27 EU Member States have reached agreement on steps to further strengthen nuclear safety, radioactive waste management and decommissioning arrangements in EU. These areas are under the jurisdiction of individual countries and as part of their continuous self improvement drive they are seeking better ways to learn from each other. At the meeting of the European ...
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Ram Flat
RAM FLAT Compactors allow their users to significantly reduce their costs to dispose of hazardous and radioactive waste. This is done by reducing the volume of the waste by compacting the material right into the drum. Only interested in crushing empty drums? No problem. Some of the RAM FLAT Compactor models are designed specifically to crush empty drums into metal pancakes. But the real bonus ...
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New report on long-term nuclear spent-fuel management
A new report (download here) launched today (Sep 30, 2014) in Brussels by the JRC and the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) analyses options for spent nuclear fuel management and their state of development. The report calls for a flexible adoption strategy, more targeted funding and the need for deep geological repositories. The report is designed specifically to help ...
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November infringements package - Commission takes further steps to ensure Member States respect EU Energy rules
In its November package of infringement decisions, the European Commission has today moved to the second stage of legal procedures – a reasoned opinion – against a number of Member States for not meeting EU rules. On the security of gas supply, the Commission is questioning whether national rules in Poland comply with the relevant Regulation (EU) 2017/1938., notably regarding certain ...
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New guidance for landfill operators on low-level and very low-level radioactive waste
New guidance published this week by the Environment Agency for landfill operators on disposing very low and low level waste to landfill. New guidance has been published today (Wednesday) by the Environment Agency for landfill operators who may want to accept low-level and very low-level radioactive waste for disposal. Last year the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ...
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Particle found at site of proposed Dounreay Low Level Waste facility
'The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) received notification from DSRL, as per normal practice, of the detection and recovery of a fuel fragment and two shovels worth of radioactive waste. These were detected while DSRL was monitoring the footprint of the proposed new low level waste facility. The active material has been removed. This is the first known find of such a fragment in ...
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EA publishes guidance for landfills taking radioactive waste
Guidance for landfill operators that want to accept low-level radioactive waste has been published by the Environment Agency (EA). The guidance follows the introduction of a more flexible approach to disposal of such waste last year by the Government. It refers to low-level radioactive waste, like rubble and soil from decommissioned nuclear sites for example. EA strategic policy manager for ...
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EC welcomes the recommendations presented in the first activity report of the EU Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG)
European Commissioner for Energy, Mr Piebalgs welcomed the first activity report of the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG), presented today by the group's chairman, Mr Stritar. The broader objective of the Group's work is to contribute to maintaining and further improving the safety of nuclear installations and the safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste. The report ...
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Government consults on nuclear waste policy
Decommissioning Dounreay generates a variety of different wastes that need to be managed carefully to protect the public and environment from harm. Some of this waste is radioactive. The most hazardous form of radioactive waste generated at Dounreay is known as intermediate-level waste and comes from a variety of redundant plant such as nuclear reactors, fuel reprocessing and laboratories. A ...
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Commissioner Piebalgs underlines importance of common rules for waste management
Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has met with the first chairman of the European High Level Group (HLG) on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management, Mr Andrej Stritar, in Brussels. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss nuclear safety and waste management issues, particularly the establishment of common European rules in the field, ahead of the HLG's third meeting in April. 'Citizens main ...
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Ansto & Battelle sign radioactive waste technology deal
The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation's Synroc technology is to be demonstrated as a way to clean up radioactive waste at the United States (US) Idaho National Laboratory. Dr George Collins, ANSTO's Chief of Research, said a US$1.4 million deal was signed between ANSTO Inc (ANSTO's US arm) and Battelle Energy Alliance - the management and operating contractor for the Idaho ...
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WCS begins construction of LLRW disposal facility
Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Valhi (Dallas, TX), announced that it has begun construction of a new facility for the near-surface disposal of Class A, B, and C low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) at WCS's treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facility in Andrews County, Texas. The announcement came one day before the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal ...
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NRC Renews Contract for SwRI to Continue Operating CNWRA
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has renewed its contract with Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) for the fifth time to operate the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA®). The five-year contract, valued at almost $76 million, assures continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible ...
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Tenders sought for new waste disposal site
Companies are being invited to express interest in tendering for the design and construction of a disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste from the decommissioning of Dounreay and adjacent Vulcan facility. A site adjacent to the former fast reactor research establishment was identified following public consultation and planning permission granted in 2009. Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd ...
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Serbian nuclear site needs US$25m to clean up leaking waste
A global effort to remove dangerous spent fuel and decommission a Soviet-designed Serbian reactor on the outskirts of Belgrade has cleared the second of three major funding hurdles. As part of the Vinča Institute Nuclear Decommissioning (VIND) Programme, the Serbian government and the IAEA recently signed an $8.63 million (EUR 5.46 million) framework agreement with the European Commission to ...
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