The second and final shipment of high-level waste from the UK to Switzerland has been completed. The waste resulted from the reprocessing and recycling of used nuclear fuel from Swiss nuclear power ...

The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate has called for the systematic management of the aging of containers in the country's interim radioactive waste storage facilities. The requirement follows ...

Revised atomic energy legislation has been in force in Switzerland since July 1979. It deals mainly with licensing of nuclear installations, introducing new procedures and clarifying conditions under ...

Selfrag AG, a maker of high-voltage fragmentation equipment, has developed a process for the commercial recycling of incinerator slag. The company, headquartered in Kerserz, Switzerland, will install ...

Switzerland confirmed on Monday that its favoured location for a 20 billion Swiss franc ($20.94 billion) underground nuclear waste storage site was an area north of Zurich, close to the border with ...

Swiss waste-management- and material-transportation company Challande et Fils is tracking the locations of its containers and waste bins as they are deposited at construction sites and other locations ...

Shopper carries plastic bags at a flea market in Geneva, Switzerland, 2006. (Photo by BERNE, Switzerland, December 17, 2012 (ENS) – Switzerland’s Parliament has approved a motion banning single-use ...

Feb. 1 (UPI) --COVID-19 medical waste has strained waste management systems, exposing a "dire need" for improvement, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. "Tens of thousands of tons of extra ...