The European Commission will promote underground storage as the safest option for storing nuclear waste, according to a leaked proposal which has already irked environmentalists.

EU energy ministers meeting in Poland today (20 September) will debate a paper by the European Commission, which makes the case for strengthening electricity interconnections in the face of Germany's nuclear phase-out. More »

European Union member states would be required to draw up detailed plans to build underground facilities to store nuclear waste under a new proposal approved by the European Commission

It occurs to me that if environmental law worked like criminal law, you'd be able to dump nuclear waste in the middle of a city, provided you agreed to stop by and check up on it once every fortnight.

The Obama administration's efforts to foster a renaissance in nuclear power in the US are coming up against an old dilemma – what to do with the waste

The waste from this EPR in Finland will be seven times more hazardous than existing nuclear reactors © Greenpeace/Cobbing Thanks to Justin at Nuclear Reaction for allowing us to reproduce this scandalous story: Following the French government's announcement that it wants to build a second EPR (European Pressurised Reactor) comes the news that the nuclear waste produced by this so-called ...

France hasn't much coal. It has nuclear power stations and the expertise and manufacturing capacity to go with it. So it's keen on nuclear. Unfortunately it has a lot of nuclear waste as well. And a lot of decommissioning to do, and pay for. Hence Sarkozy being Brown's bestest friend. Even if there isn't any money to put up the new plant there's the English dumping grounds for contaminated waste -...

Only a handful of countries have the expertise and technology for nuclear reprocessing, in which spent nuclear fuel rods from power stations are chopped up and boiled in acid to extract uranium and plutonium for reuse in a reactor. The by-product is a concentrated form of vitrified nuclear waste that is

Right Democrat has this, from the Wisconsin State Journal: Let's hope the head of the state Public Service Commission is right about the future of nuclear power in Wisconsin. Eric Callisto, chairman of the regulatory agency that oversees utilities across the state, predicted Monday that the Democratic-controlled Legislature will soon relax a moratorium on construction of nuclear power plants in Wi...

Lawyers acting on behalf of British anti-nuclear campaigners have submitted a complaint about atomic subsidies to the European Commission which, if upheld, could prevent the building of new nuclear reactors in the EU. More »