ANSTO nuclear waste storage plan gets approval, should last until 2037. By Ben Langford. Updated March 19 2022 - 1:37pm, first published March 18 2022 - 1:50pm. By Ben Langford.

Together, the facilities are known as the Ansto Nuclear Medicine (ANM) project. Construction of the molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) production facility has already started and construction of the Synroc waste ...

Paula Berghofer is the general manager of nuclear waste management at ANSTO's Lucas Heights facility in Sydney.(ABC News: Matthew Doran) Offshore processing.

ANSTO says there is growing international interest in the Synroc technology. "Along with the benefits of a nuclear medicine production comes a responsibility to safely manage the by-product ...

ANSTO has confirmed in a statement on its website, the waste is on its way to Australia, but hasn't said whether the material will land at Port Kembla, or be trucked through the Illawarra.

The vast majority (97%) of the nuclear waste produced in this country is coming from Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), the research reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney.

An associated liquid waste facility, known as SyMo, also was delayed, along with problems choosing a site for a radioactive waste dump. Again, ANSTO vowed to do better and to work with government ...

Australian technology aims to make storing radioactive waste safer. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 11 / 111102093051.htm ...

Nuclear waste from ANSTO transported under police guard in 2021. Credit: ANSTO. The radioactive leftovers of that process return to Australia in a dramatic affair that sees the bushy highway ...

Inside the Opal nuclear research reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney, operated by ANSTO. AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy Radioactive waste is not automatically more hazardous than others waste.

One of the largest repositories is Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) at the Lucas Heights nuclear facility, in Sydney's south. The ABC was invited inside. Safety first ...