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The tunnels of the Bure laboratory are still being carved out of the 150 million-year-old rock.
Miscellaneous

France starts on nuclear waste storage project

August 16, 2010 rockman Miscellaneous Comments Off on France starts on nuclear waste storage project

Apparently the French are working on their nuclear waste storage facility, they already have a research laboratory constructed about 1/2-km underground. The actual repository will come on line around 2025 and be one of the […]

Loading contaminated soil into a truck near the Hanford Nuclear site. A former plutonium production reactor is in the background.
Geophysics

Hanford nuclear waste retrieval resumes with better technology (GPR)

July 1, 2010 rockman Geophysics Comments Off on Hanford nuclear waste retrieval resumes with better technology (GPR)

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) imaging of the subsurface tied to GPS mapping will allow the CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company to have a better idea of what is buried at the site before excavating for […]

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Swedish Nuclear Waste Repository Could Begin Construction in 2016

June 24, 2009 rockman Project Related Comments Off on Swedish Nuclear Waste Repository Could Begin Construction in 2016

ENR reports that a nuclear waste repository for spent nuclear fuel in Sweden could begin construction as early as 2016. The facility would consist of 50km of tunnels in granite bedrock up to 500-m deep. […]