Preparing for a new era at WIPP
In March this year the US Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (DOE EM) announced that it had completed…
Decommissioning & Waste Management
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Stepping forward on cleanup
The US Office of Environmental Management (EM), part of the Department of Energy, has sought less funding in 2025 than…
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Special Report – Canada’s GDF: Going far, together
Canada has built a half-century nuclear energy track record on safe and reliable electricity generation and an isotope supply of…
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Capping off LLW disposal
The UK pioneered the use of radioactive materials and developed a whole new industry for the ‘nuclear age’. A world-leading…
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Sharing geological repositories
The pace and scale of the upswing in interest and ambitions in countries wishing to expand or introduce nuclear power…
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Streamlining decommissioning
Unit 3 at the Crystal River nuclear power plant in Florida, USA, saw the first use of an optimised segmentation…
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Decommissioning challenge: Ready for the end of life
The IAEA, the European Commission and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency are working with the World Nuclear Association to consolidate…
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Who decides nuclear fates?
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering an application to extend the life of California’s only remaining nuclear power…
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Scaling up on geopolymers for safe nuclear waste disposal
As nuclear energy continues to scale into the future as part of the global energy mix, the continuing challenge of…
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Optimizing nuclear waste management: the role of DQO in decommissioning
For almost 70 years, nuclear power has been an integral part of the energy supply chain and it is currently…
