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Museums pledge to return koiwi 29 Jun 2021 08:30 AM Photo: Radio Waatea Image Database. More Related Stories Museums around the country have adopted a national repatriation policy for koiwi tangata and associated burial taonga. Te Papa Tongarewa kaihautu Māori Dr Arapata Hakiwai says it’s important all museums can take a respectful approach to tipuna and the policy adopted at last week’s annual meeting of Museums Aotearoa will help achieve that. The policy provides guidance for museums and includes a presumption that repatriation to the source community should be the outcome wh...

26 January 2021 Share Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) announced yesterday that it has completed all shipments of highly enriched uranium target residue material (HEU TRM) from Canada to the USA, bringing its TRM Repatriation Project to "a safe and successful conclusion". The culmination of nearly a decade of work and planning removes "a major nuclear liability" from the Chalk River Laboratories campus, CNL said. The Chalk River Laboratories campus, pictured in 2015 (Image: CNL) HEU TRM is one of the by-products of Molybdenum-99, a medical isotope that was previously produced at the Chalk ...