LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE?
June 13, 2020 - Le Devoir. Low-level waste, for example, has always been radioactive enough harmless to be handled with bare hands without protective shielding. However, in just a few days, these same words "low level waste" will designate radioactive products a thousand times more dangerous, often fatal to the touch.
SKB WILL PUBLISH LOT PROJECT RESULTS AND SSM WILL DO A QUALITY CONTROL
March 25, 2020 - The analysis of copper corrosion in the retrieved 20-year old LOT packages can decide the issue of the suitability of copper as a canister material in the planned. The latest package was retrieved in 2006 after 5 years heating and there was an unexpected amount of copper corrosion, especially on the heated copper tube. There was an attempt to explain this by all oxygen locked inside the package causing corrosion, but this explanation is not convincing as much of the oxygen would have been consumed in the surrounding clay and groundwater before reaching copper surfaces.
MKG AND ITS MEMBER ORGANISATIONS TAKE THE ISSUE OF THE SECRET LOT RETRIEVAL TO THE GOVERNMENT
February 27, 2020 - Copper canisters corrode much faster than originally thought in experiments. In the statement, the organisations argue that it is important that a thorough analysis that the copper corrosion in the newly retrieved 20-year experimental packages in the LOT experiment be part of the basis in the government's admissibility review of the repository.
NUCLEAR ICE CREAM IS NOT HOW THIS ONTARIO DESSERT MAKER WANTS TO BE KNOWN
February 29, 2020 - CBC News - Chapman's Ice Cream says proposal to bury nuclear waste in the Great Lakes basin is 'shortsighted'.
HOW DID IT HAPPEN THAT IN SWEDEN, THE COUNTRY THAT DEVELOPED THE TECHNOLOGY FOR DEEP GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE, CONSTRUCTION OF A SUCH A REPOSITORY – A FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD – HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR RECOGNIZED RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES, WHEREAS FINLAND, WHICH HAS COPIED THE SWEDISH APPROACH, IS MOVING FULL SPEED AHEAD WITH BUILDING ONE?
August 9, 2016
TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF NUCLEAR WASTE
Peer reviewed article - Jan 6, 2018 - Review conclusions from the report starting on page 8.
REPOSITORY HEAT EXPERIMENT COMES TO AN END
May 26, 2015 - After 18 years 30% of the sensors meant to monitor the waste and heat had already failed
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL IN FOUR WORDS: “WE DO NOT KNOW”
October 30, 2018
PERCEIVED RISK AND BENEFIT OF NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES: FOUR OPINION CLUSTERS
Risk Analysis, Vol. 33, No. 6, 2013
WHEN HASTE MAKES RISKY WASTE: PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN RADIOACTIVE AND NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SWEDEN AND FINLAND
August 9, 2016 - casts doubts on the safety of the storage vessels
WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR WASTE?
The race is on to develop strategies for storing the most dangerous materials on Earth