There have been few serious mishaps linked to the transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) and High-Level Waste (HLW), according to a somewhat dated review done for the DOE. (An update is available ...

It is for these reasons that fast reactors have been under development for decades in several countries, primarily as breeders and, in recent years, also as high-level waste burners. Sodium cooled ...

MSRs also generate less high-level waste, and their design does not require solid fuel, eliminating the need for building and disposing of it. These reactors can adapt to a variety of nuclear fuel ...

The Japanese government and nuclear power plant operators have long grappled with how to dispose of spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste. Authorities finally settled on the approach ...

"However, I will not allow Washington to impose its will on West Texas regarding the temporary disposal of high-level nuclear waste simply because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can’t — or ...

They work together as a single system to safely and efficiently process and store the waste. As per World Nuclear News, “Lot 0,” a temporary storage facility for high-level and long-lived ...

First, finding a place to dispose of this high-level nuclear waste. The current consensus is that burying the waste deep underground in geological disposal facilities (GDFs) is probably the safest ...

TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki Prefecture—An incumbent mayor who opposes building a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste on this island was elected to a third term on March 3. Naoki ...

Two municipalities in Hokkaido that have applied for hosting the final deposal site for high-level radioactive waste have received mostly clean bills of health in the first survey and can move on ...

“However, I will not allow Washington to impose its will on West Texas regarding the temporary disposal of high-level nuclear waste simply because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can’t - or ...