The Department of Energy this week posted a new video online showing off the Atlas railcar the agency plans to use to transport spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants.
The agency’s Office of Nuclear Energy posted video, among other places, on the social network X.
The Japanese foreign ministry condemned Russia’s decision to ban seafood imports from Japan following the discharge of irradiated wastewater from the shuttered, partially melted-down Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Associated Press reported.
China also banned Japanese seafood because of discharges from Fukushima. There have been two discharges so far, the latest of which happened in the first week of October. The first took place in late August.
The Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj last week said it got an environmental permit for a low-level waste disposal site from Finnish government, according to a press release.
The site will store very low-level waste from the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Eurajoki, Finland, on the country’s western coast close to where the Gulf of Bothnia meets the Baltic Sea.
After peer review missions to Italy and the Netherlands, the International Atomic Energy Agency lauded the country for a commitment to safely managing radioactive waste, the U.N. agency wrote in press releases last week.
The agency’s team, two of its own inspectors plus a representative each from Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Lithuania and France, wrapped up a 10-day mission to Italy on Oct. 10. Another 10 experts wrapped a 13-day mission to the Netherlands, according to an Oct. 16 press release, though the agency did not say when the inspection began.
Italy closed its last nuclear power plant in 1990 and manages radioactive waste from its former power program and several research reactors, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Netherlands has one commercial nuclear power plant and several other nuclear and radioactive facilities.
