A Finnish radioactive waste management company has produced the first copper casting blank for the fabrication of a final ...

Posiva has completed Finland’s first copper canister blank for nuclear waste disposal at the Onkalo repository.

In the bedrock here, at a depth of 430 meters, testing is underway. Storage of spent fuel involves placing spent fuel rods inside copper canisters, which in turn have to be inserted into slots dug ...

Reporting from Salem, Ore. — The two copper canisters once shared the darkness of a decaying and abandoned room at Oregon State Hospital with about 3,500 others. Each etched with a distinct ...

The copper and cast-iron canisters will be wrapped in bentonite clay and deposited in 1,410 feet of 1,800-year-old bedrock - otherwise known as a natural release barrier.

2. Sweden’s final repository for SNF will be located 500 meters deep in Forsmark, within rock that’s 1.9 billion years old. It will store 12,000 tonnes of SNF in 6,000 copper canisters ...

Salem, Ore. – Oregon’s state-run mental hospital is famous as the place where “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was filmed. But there is another sad side to the crumbling old hospital ...