A prototype nuclear waste canister in the drillhole receptacle. (Photo: Deep Isolation)
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear announced it has signed a technology licensing agreement with government contractor Navarro Research and Engineering, giving Navarro access to Deep Isolation’s portfolio of intellectual property for use in nuclear and hazardous waste management applications across the states of Tennessee and Idaho.
WM Symposia’s Greg Meyer (left) with Mikhail Chudakov from the IAEA. (Photo: WM Symposia)
WM Symposia, which hosts the annual Waste Management Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., announced it has signed a practical arrangement with the International Atomic Energy Agency aimed at strengthening international collaboration in the safe management of radioactive waste, decommissioning, and environmental remediation.
Amentum says nuclear growth in the U.K. will result in the hiring of 3,000 new workers over the next four. (Photo: Amentum)
Global engineering company Amentum announced plans on Thursday to create 3,000 new jobs over the next four years on the back of growth in nuclear power and defense in the United Kingdom.
The announcement follows President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K., during which a number of deals between the two countries were announced.
An instructor and participants during the first National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. (Photo: NWS)
Sellafield Ltd.’s Euan Hutton (left) and TEPCO’s Akira Ono extend a cooperative agreement between the two companies. (Photo: TEPCO)
The U.K.’s Sellafield Ltd. and Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company have pledge to continue to work together for up to an additional 10 years, extending a cooperative agreement begun in 2014 following the 2011 tsunami that resulted in the irreparable damage of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi plant.
IAEA personnel check a sample of Fukushima’s ALPS-treated water. (Photo: TEPCO)
An International Atomic Energy Agency task force has confirmed that the discharge of treated water from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is proceeding in line with international safety standards. The task force’s findings were published in the agency’s fourth report since Tokyo Electric Power Company began discharging Fukushima’s treated and diluted water in August 2023.
More information can be found on the IAEA’s Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water Discharge web page.
Oklo’s proposed Advanced Fuel Center in Tennessee. (Image: Oklo)
Late last week saw two announcements from companies working to recycle used nuclear fuel on a commercial scale, providing welcome news to anyone hoping to see the United States move to unlock the hidden potential of the more than 94,000 metric tons of spent fuel stored at power plant sites around the country.
Specialized loading equipment for TRUPACT-IIIs is sent from SRS to the Idaho Cleanup Project for reuse. (Photo: DOE)
Demonstrating the beneficial reuse of equipment among Department of Energy cleanup sites, the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management transferred TRUPACT-III shipping equipment from its Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the Idaho Cleanup Project at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. This collaboration shows how DOE-EM drives efficiency, focusing on priorities and reining in costs without sacrificing safety or effectiveness, the DOE said.
A continuous miner machine cuts into salt rock at WIPP. (Photo: DOE)
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the addition of two new waste emplacement panels at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the Department of Energy’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic waste in New Mexico.
N3B Los Alamos president Brad Smith (left) speaks to DNFSB tour participants
A map of the Northeast Church Rock uranium mine site location. (Image: NRC)
The United Nuclear Corporation and General Electric will undertake a nearly $63 million, decade-long cleanup project at the former Northeast Church Rock Mine in northwestern New Mexico under a consent decree with the United States, the Navajo Nation, and the state of New Mexico.
The new carriers for the HFIR spent fuel have a thinner bail made of a more easily dissolvable alloy than the previously used bail. (Photo: DOE)
Employees at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina have demonstrated their resourcefulness and capabilities by implementing a newly created carrier to transport spent nuclear fuel, reducing the time needed to process the material for permanent disposal in coming years.
Workers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers perform gamma walkover surveys along Coldwater Creek near St. Louis, Mo. (Photo: USACE)
A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association claims to have found an increased rate of cancer for people who grew up living close to Coldwater Creek near St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri.
(A) Computational domain and material distribution used in the simulations. The domain is rotated so that the Opalinus Clay strata are vertical. (B) 3D contour plots of neutral uncharged tritiated water (left) and charged 36Cl− (right) solutes at 900 days. (C) Comparison of observed (symbols) and simulated (lines) borehole concentrations using the 3D model. (Image: Sarsenbayev et al.)
Researchers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Orléans, have modeled radionuclide behavior in deep geologic formations, offering a tool for developing a defensible safety case for the underground disposal of radioactive waste.
Team members and the new closure welding system that seals canisters containing spent fuel. (Photo: DOE)
Teams from the Department of Energy’s Offices of Environmental Management and Nuclear Energy recently collaborated on the Road Ready Demonstration Project by testing new equipment to seal spent nuclear fuel into a safe and transportable system for future shipments out of Idaho.
The Arkansas Nuclear One nuclear power plant in Russellville, Ark. (Photo: Entergy)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering allowing Entergy to use a portion of the decommissioning trust fund (DTF) for the Arkansas Nuclear One nuclear power plant to dispose of several major radioactive components (MRC) that have been taken out of service at the two-unit pressurized water reactor.
