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A project to build a facility to deal with sludge that accumulated over more than two decades of Magnox fuel processing at Sellafield is making progress, with the first phase of the project reaching a major landmark.

The contract for MOX reactor fuel to be usedÌýby Duke ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has lapsed and must now be renegotiated. Project owner NNSA said other utilities were interested in using the fuel, made in part from unwanted US nuclear weapons.

The USA is to design and construct a national storage facility in Amman for Jordan's radioactive waste and nuclear materials under a contract signed in Washington, DC.

UPDATED The shipment of mixed-oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel from France to Japan has started. Workers at Cherbourg, FranceÌýbegan loading containers of the fuel early on 5 March.

Studsvik of Sweden has been awarded a contract to coordinate and supervise the project to decommission Belgonucleaire's mixed-oxide fuel fabrication plant in Dessel, Belgium.

Work on disposing of radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain has all but stopped after President Barack Obama's budget blueprint yesterday. A new strategy for permanent storage is to be developed.

This ghostly scene shows the highly radioactive sodium residues that built up on insulation plates within the Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) at Dounreay, Scotland.Ìý

Following several years of preliminary work, 14 European countries have set up a working group to consider establishing a European Repository Development Organisation (ERDO) to collaborate on nuclear waste disposal.

Companies have confirmed that a shipment of mixed oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel from Europe to Japan is being prepared, although the exact departure date has not yet been announced.

Two documents related to Ontario Power Generation's (OPG's) proposed Deep Geologic Repository (DRG) at its Bruce site in Kincardine, Ontario, have been published.

The US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has not done enough to find uses for the depleted uranium left over from uranium enrichment and should do more to avoid having to treat the entire inventory as waste, according to the department's own internal watchdog.