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Serbian officials lay out nuclear energy timeline
Serbia reached a significant milestone in 2024 when its National Assembly overturned a moratorium on nuclear power plants that had been in place for 35 years, a ban imposed when the country was part of the former Yugoslavia.
Fast forward to 2026 and the European country’s nuclear energy ambitions have become clearer. On July 13, Serbia’s Ministry of Mining and Energy held a four-day workshop outlining the country’s plans to kickstart a nuclear program.
Larry L. Hench
Nuclear Technology | Volume 73 | Number 2 | May 1986 | Pages 188-198
Technical Paper | Performance of Borosilicate Glass High-Level Waste Forms in Disposal System / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33783
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A number of collaborative research projects between Belgium, Canada, France, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and the Federal Republic of Germany are now in progress to test the relative surface reactions of nuclear waste glasses under a wide variety of simulated repository conditions. The studies include 1-, 3-, 6-, 12-, 24-, and 32-month deep burial in granite boreholes in the Stripa mine in Sweden at 90 and 10°C. Nearly 2000 interactive interfaces are being studied in salt in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in the United States. Several glasses from these tests are also being evaluated in clay in Belgium. Comparisons of the simulated burial conditions with glasses containing radioactivity close to that expected for commercial operations at LaHague, France, are being made by a Japan-Sweden-Switzerland consortium with collaboration from the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Marcoule and the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin. These studies are leading toward an international consensus on the relative performance of high-level waste forms including borosilicate glasses, waste packages, and repository variables.