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Finland is on the cusp of becoming the world's first country to bury spent nuclear fuel in a geological tomb where it will be stored for 100,000 years.
Deep Isolation raised $33 million to conduct a key test of its system to stash radioactive material underground.
An elevator rattles down about a kilometre (3,000 feet) below ground in five minutes to reach Germany's nuclear necropolis, a future repository set to to entomb much of its radioactive waste. At ...
But nuclear energy creates waste. Spent nuclear fuel sits at 121 sites in 39 states. Some is from military operations, such as powering the Navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers.
Storage materials "will likely degrade faster than anyone previously knew." The current model the U.S. and other countries plan to use to store high-level nuclear waste may not be as safe as ...
Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the answer to the U.S.'s nuclear waste problem, but after 22 years and $9 billion, ... The government, in turn, agreed to find a place to bury the waste.
HELSINKI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Finnish Posiva on Friday asked for government permit to construct a final repository for used nuclear fuel, planned to be the first site in the world to start burying ...
Burying radioactive material seemed like a good idea before climate change became a reality. CLOSE. Thank you! We have emailed you a PDF version of the article you requested. ... Nuclear Waste On Ice.
OTTAWA, June 14 (Reuters) - Canada said on Thursday it had approved the idea of burying nuclear waste from its power plants deep in the ground at a single location, a proposal that green activists ...
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