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Transfer of waste from Berkeley vaults begins

The first concrete box containing radioactive waste from underground vaults at the shut down Berkeley nuclear power plant in the UK has been transferred to an interim on-site storage facility,…

Planning consent granted for General Fusion demo plant

Construction of General Fusion's Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA's) Culham Campus near Oxford, England, is expected to start later this year following…

UK Demonstration of Borehole Sealing Technology

Existing boreholes at the Rosemanowes quarry in Cornwall, southwest England, have been successfully sealed by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) in a demonstration of the technology it plans to use to…

Finland Might Have Solved Nuclear Power’s Biggest Problem

Finland is building the largest and most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe - and may have worked out what to do with spent nuclear fuel once and for all.

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Types of rock in which radioactive waste could be disposed of

Short video outlining the types of rock that are being considered as suitable to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)

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Cumbrian development company chooses Rolls-Royce SMR

Newly-established development firm Solway Community Power Company has selected the Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) for deployment in West Cumbria, England. Earlier this week, it was…

KBR to support UK repository development

USA-headquartered KBR has been awarded a contract to support the UK's Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) in developing a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). Such a facility, NWS says, will create more…

Nuclear waste removal project commences at UK's most hazardous building

Sky News was given exclusive access to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, including to the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, which has been described as the most hazardous building in Western Europe…