A commission appointed to find alternatives to a failed plan to store nuclear waste in the Nevada desert said yesterday that the US would have to develop a “consent-based approach” for choosing a site because leaving the decision to Congress had failed.
The Dutch government has given the green light for a new research reactor to be built at Petten in the Netherlands, replacing the existing High-Flux Reactor (HFR), which has been in operation since 1961 and is reaching the end of its economic life.
The quest to create nuclear fusion may have come a step closer after scientists heated solid matter to two million degrees Celsius with the world’s most powerful X-ray laser.
Radioactive releases from Canadian nuclear power plants from 2001 to 2010 were “far below” the set limit for the release of radioactive substances from a licensed nuclear facility, the country’s regulator has said in a report published yesterday.
A wireless tracking system that can provide a real-time headcount of underground workers is to be used at the Swedish nuclear waste management company SKB International’s Aspo Hard Rock Laboratory.
