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U.S. Blue Ribbon Commission suggests nuclear waste program overhaul America's stalled nuclear waste management program stands little chance of moving forward without a complete overhaul, a federal panel concluded after two-year assessment commissioned by the U.S. Energy Department. , 26 January 2012
Canada: Plan to bury nuclear waste at Chalk River A proposal to bury nuclear waste in Eastern Ontario is taking an exploratory step forward, while a plan to entomb radioactive rubbish near Lake Huron also advanced., 25 January 2012

Japan Lower house passes bill for disposal of radioactive waste The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to hold the central government responsible for disposing of high-level radioactive waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant., 01 September 2011

EU tightens nuclear waste disposal rules The European Union on Tuesday tightened rules on the disposal of radioactive waste with strict conditions on exporting it outside EU borders, 19 July 2011
The View On The Streets: Nuclear Power Savvy citizens may worry about waste but few have completely swallowed the nuclear doom mongering now evident in Germany., 15 July 2011

New law in Russia on Radioactive Waste Management Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signs Federal Law On Radioactive Waste Management , 13 July 2011

JAVYS (Slovakia) Plans to Invest EUR 27M in Radioactive Waste Repository Slovak nuclear decommissioning company JAVYS plans to invest nearly 27 million euros in the National Radioactive Waste Repository in Mochovce, western Slovakia. , 30 May 2011

JNFL to construct new research facility for vitrification technology A new facility will be constructed in Japan to develop vitrification technology, 01 March 2011

Protesters in Germany gear up to block another nuclear waste transport Activists are preparing to protest a cross-country train transport of nuclear waste. Authorities aren’t saying when the transport will leave, but the protestors plan to intercept it., 14 February 2011

Forsmark Site Chosen for Swedish SF Repository The world's first permanent disposal site for used nuclear fuel will be at Forsmark, Sweden's SKB announced., 04 June 2009

Court Rules in Favor of Foreign RW Disposal in Utah U.S. District Court ruled that the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste has no authority to limit the flow of radioactive waste to the EnergySolutions Inc. disposal site in Utah's West Desert, 26 May 2009
Yucca Mountain 'terminated' The long-running Yucca Mountain waste disposal plan has now been officially 'terminated' in the US Department of Energy's (DOE) 2010 budget request., 08 May 2009

Utah, EnergySolutions square off in court over foreign waste EnergySolutions, the company that operates the LLW repository in Utah, USA, is in court to challenge the State's authority to regulate its operations. (Salt Lake Tribune), 26 February 2009
Finland's Posiva Oy Issues EIS for Geological Disposal Facility (The link loads the pdf document), 18 February 2009

US NRC allows Vermont Yankee to use D&D Funds for Waste Storage The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission reversed an earlier stand and said it was OK for Entergy Nuclear to tap into Vermont Yankee's decommissioning fund to pay for the storage of high-level radioactive waste outside the plant., 04 February 2009

US NRC Dockets the Yucca Mtn Application The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has formally docketed the Department of Energy’s license application for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. , 08 September 2008

New disposal facility for VLLW in El Cabril, Spain On 21st of July, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce of Spain granted a license to ENRESA for starting the operation of El Cabril disposal facility for very low level waste (VLLW). , 13 August 2008
Latest Eurobarometer survey “Attitudes towards radioactive waste" published on July 2008, shows a significant increase in public support for nuclear power compared to the 2005 survey, 13 August 2008