A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

We the Nuclear Free North (WTNFN) has noted fundamental flaws in the NWMO’s Initial Project Description for its planned deep geological repository for all of Canada’s nuclear fuel waste.

The Initial Project Description for the proposed underground deep geological repository system for Canada's used nuclear fuel ...

The years-long process for regulators to decide whether a proposed nuclear waste storage site gets the green light has begun.

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO) is proposing a new underground deep geological repository system ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

The pace and scale of the upswing in interest and ambitions in countries wishing to expand or introduce nuclear power is astonishing. While large, advanced reactors (ARs) are central to many plans for ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

Jerry Keto hunches his shoulders against the rain spit, against the nasty grey day that has fallen like a shroud over the eastern shore of Lake Huron. Yet he seems inured to the weather, as he has ...

Nagra CEO Matthias Braun said that the authority also hopes that legitimization by the people will speed up the process. In an interview with the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" newspaper on Tuesday, Braun ...

This presentation explores the role of microorganisms in the engineered barrier system of a deep geological repository (DGR) for used nuclear fuel, with a focus on bentonite clay and surrounding ...