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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 […]

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Grouting project to protect Snake River Plain Aquifer completed ahead of schedule

October 4, 2010 rockman Press Releases Comments Off on Grouting project to protect Snake River Plain Aquifer completed ahead of schedule

September 29, 2010 — The Idaho Cleanup Project safely completed a remedial action five weeks ahead of schedule that protects the Snake River Plain Aquifer by grouting buried waste at the U.S. Department of Energy’s […]

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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. […]