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 ...

Small and advanced nuclear reactors are key to meeting future low-carbon dioxide energy demands, so much attention has been focused on the birth of these new technologies. But 70 years of nuclear ...

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 ...