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The latest major step in the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s push for a massive underground storage site for spent ...

An operating permit which is valid until 2095 has been issued by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland for a ...

TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki Prefecture--A sleepy island north of Kyushu has been awakened by a controversial proposal to accept a rich government bounty for agreeing to a survey for selecting the site of a ...

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

Canada’s NWMO has launched the regulatory process to licence a deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel in ...

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep underground. Schemes take many years to plan, and many more years to build, but ...

TVO has received an operating permit from Finnish regulator STUK for its low-level nuclear waste facility in Olkiluoto.

OSLO (Reuters) - Sweden's radiation safety authority (SSM) and an environmental court issued diverging recommendations to the government on Tuesday on whether to allow the construction of a nuclear ...

The construction of Bulgaria’s National Repository for Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste is progressing, with total costs estimated at around 75 million euros. The project is scheduled for ...

A radioactive wasp nest was discovered near a nuclear waste storage facility near Aiken, South Carolina. The nest was discovered during a routine check by facility employees, and has since been ...

The justices rebuffed a petition from an anti-nuclear group that had asked the court to address temporary waste storage.