ITA to work with IAEA on advance geologic repository knowledge

October 20, 2025, 9:32AMRadwaste Solutions
From left, Gerald Nieder-Westermann, IAEA waste disposal specialist; Andrea Pigorini, ITA president; Karina Lange, IAEA waste disposal specialist and scientific secretary for the IAEA’s Underground Research Facilities Network, Daniel Garbutt, ITA representative; Helen Roth, ITA executive director; Arnold Dix, ITA past president and chair of the ITA special interest group; and Stefan Joerg Mayer, IAEA team lead. (Photo: ITA)

The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA), a nongovernmental organization made up of 81 member states working to advance the safe, beneficial use of subsurface spaces, is working with the International Atomic Energy Agency to support the advancement of geologic disposal facilities for high-level radioactive waste.

NWTRB asks DOE, Congress to take action on geologic repository

March 26, 2025, 7:35AMRadwaste Solutions
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The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board has recommended to the Department of Energy and Congress that they work together “to create a workable pathway to site, license, construct, and operate a geologic repository for the permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.”

NWTRB to hold public meeting on SNF disposal and corrosion

May 1, 2024, 9:30AMRadwaste Solutions

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an independent federal agency that evaluates the Department of Energy’s efforts to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, will hold a two-day public meeting May 21–22 to review information on the DOE’s research and development activities related to the disposal of SNF and HLW in crystalline host rocks and on the corrosion of commercial SNF after disposal.