Discussion of potential spent nuclear fuel storage facility comes to Craig City Council

Addressing our waste with eyes wide open

Three decades ago the Prairie Island nuclear facility near Red Wing faced a public relations dilemma, as well as a practical problem of spent radioactive fuel rods needing to be stored somewhere.

Discussion of potential spent nuclear fuel storage facility comes to Craig City Council

A discussion that could drastically change Northwest Colorado’s economic and environmental future accelerated on Tuesday during a Craig City Council work session. The council hosted a presentation and discussion on the potential and process of beginning community-based conversations regarding the possibility of locating a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Moffat County. The meeting featured Northwest Colorado Energy…

Castor transport with radioactive waste has made its way from Great Britain to Lower Bavaria. The aim of the seven nuclear waste containers is the Niederaichbach intermediate camp in the Landshut district. There they will be stored indefinitely.

Nuclear waste plan safe, proponent reiterates

The prospect of loads of spent nuclear-fuel rods being hauled by transport trucks or rail cars through rural Northwestern Ontario to a future remote underground storage site remains a touchy topic, despite the project proponent's latest assurances. In unveiling its…

Barrow-in-Furness/Niederaichbach (dpa) – Seven Castor containers with high radioactive waste are on their way from Great Britain to Germany. A special ship left the port in Barrow-in-Furness on Wednesday, the Gesellschaft für Nuclear-Service (GNS) in Essen and the British company Sellafield Ltd. The containers are to be transported via a German port to the intermediate camp in Niederaichbach (Landkreis Landshut) in Lower Bavaria. The Castor cont…

05:15 The financial director appointed by the government to manage the 15 billion euros that Engie pays for nuclear waste does not have the necessary qualifications, the watchdog warns.