Tag: Radioactive Waste

September 5, 2023

ARS Aleut Remediation, LLC (Aleut), a recognized leader in environmental services, is proud to announce the award of a $5.5 million task order to undertake a vital project for the safe management and disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) and […]

February 6, 2023

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set a date to begin remediation of radioactive waste located at the West Lake Landfill. Clean-up will initiate at the landfill, located in Bridgeton, Mo. in March 2024. The radioactive waste was shipped to […]

May 18, 2022

The Department of Energy is hosting a 30-day comment period to determine where to put decades-old waste from the Manhattan Project work. The site is called Y-12, and environmental regulators and the community have been discussing plans since a landfill […]

February 4, 2022

Scientists at Ural Federal University have figured out how to process sludge containing radioactive uranium, which will help provide uranium for the nuclear industry. “We have succeeded in extracting uranium suitable for recycling into nuclear fuel production,” explains Ksenia Nalivaiko, […]

January 14, 2021

A plant in Washington State will begin processing 56 million gallons of radioactive waste in 2023. The plant will turn low-activity radioactive waste into glass and disposing of it safely, in a process called vitrification. The plant’s millions of gallons […]

November 6, 2020

Copeland Council has formed a working group to identify a new radioactive waste disposal site. In 2013, the Council looked at the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) but Cumbria County refused permission. If approved today, the site would store the UK’s […]