Public Utilities, Waste Management
February 6, 2023
Via: Waste360The 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 […]
Other Utilities, Public Utilities, Waste Management
May 18, 2022
Via: Waste360The 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 […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
February 4, 2022
Via: Waste Management WorldScientists 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, […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
January 14, 2021
Via: Waste360A 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 […]
Public Utilities, Waste Management
November 6, 2020
Via: Waste360Copeland 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 […]
March 2, 2023
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