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Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) estimates that it will take 44 years to decommission its Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plant, located some 15km south of the accident-hit Fukushima Daiichi station.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 January 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfukushima-daiini-decommissioning-to-take-44-years-7743868
The California Coastal Commission has approved a coastal development permit for Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear power plant, enabling decommissioning of the plant to begin. The utility said it expects the dismantling of major structures at the two-unit plant to begin next year.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Permit-issued-for-San-Onofre-decommissioning
At Ignalina NPP (INPP) in Lithuania, construction has begun of a storage facility for low-level radioactive waste, INPP’s press service reported on 19 September.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsignalina-begins-construction-radwaste-storage-facility-7421498
CDI is a joint venture company of Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin of Canada.
Holtec said Pilgrim’s decommissioning will make the 1700-acre site fit for commercial or industrial use except for a small parcel of land where the dry storage casks will remain to be held.
The first steps in the decommissioning process will include the transfer of the plant’s used nuclear fuel from its spent fuel pool to a robust dry storage system onsite, Holtec said.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 29 August 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/holtec-to-contract-cdi-for-plant-decommissioning-work-8-3-2019