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 ...

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

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 ...

Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide and millions of liters of radioactive liquid waste from weapons production sitting in temporary ...

The development of Canada's deep geological repository entered the regulatory decision-making process on Monday, after the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) submitted the Initial Project ...