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The UK’s Magnox Ltd will in future be known as Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS). “This is more than a change of sign – it is a demonstration of the organisation we want to be – delivery focused, transformative, innovative and growing,” said NRS Chief Executive Officer, Rob Fletcher.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmagnox-rebrands-to-become-nuclear-restoration-services-11278272
A state-of-the-art Glove Box Training Facility for the UK nuclear industry has been opened at Sellafield. Glove boxes are crucial to operations at nuclear sites enabling operators to handle hazardous material in a safe and controlled environment. However, their use requires high levels of skill and dexterity. The new facility will reduce the amount of training done within plants and provide a standardised approach across the sector. It was delivered by the UK Alpha Resilience & Capability (ARC) programme.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 12 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsstate-of-the-art-glove-box-training-facility-opens-at-sellafield-11210165
‘Four-legged “Spot” robots, developed by US-based Boston Dynamics, have negotiated pitch-black conditions to map an evaporator cell in the fuel cycle area of the Dounreay site in Scotland. Dounreay was the UK’s former fast reactor test facility, which operated from 1955 to 1994. It is now being decommissioned. Ongoing clean-up and dismantling work is continuing.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsspot-robot-accesses-fuel-cycle-area-at-dounreay-11129199
Spot, a robotic quadruped, has completed a trial at the Dounreay site in Scotland, UK, where it successfully navigated an evaporator cell in the Fuel Cycle Area that has been shut off for 25 years.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Robot-navigates-Dounreay-evaporator-cell
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has awarded UK-based Cavendish Nuclear, a subsidiary of Babcock International Group, a contract to support of the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) in Fukui Prefecture.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscavendish-contracted-to-support-decommissioning-of-japans-monju-reactor-10831730
British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear has been awarded a contract by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to provide specialist capability in support of the decommissioning of the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (PFR).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Monju-sodium-to-be-processed-in-the-UK
UK Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has launched a strategy focused on key objectives “to ensure that the right waste form, in the right package, is managed or disposed of at the right facility”. According to the 42-page document, “NWS will support accelerated decommissioning through innovation, with legacy and future waste streams managed in the most sustainable and efficient way through technology development, expertise and setting worldwide standards to provide value for the UK.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 28 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-details-strategy-for-nuclear-waste-management-10794613
Workers at the UK’s former fast reactor test facility at Dounreay in Scotland - which operated from 1955 to 1994 - have completed the first in a series of campaigns to seal the waste containers into place in the two near-surface low-level waste (LLW) disposal vaults at the site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-containers-sealed-dounreay-low-level-waste-vaults-10074918
The Magnox reprocessing plant at the Sellafield site in Cumbria has reprocessed the final box of used fuel from the UK's fast reactor programme being stored in the plant's ponds. Meanwhile, preparations are being made for the demolition of the iconic Pile One chimney that dominated the landscape over Sellafield for decades.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-processes-last-of-fast-reactor-fuel
UK-based Turner & Townsend (T&T) and Arcadis have been re-appointed to provide project controls and commercial services to support the decommissioning and management of UK nuclear sites by Magnox Ltd.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsturner-townsend-and-arcadis-reappointed-to-support-magnox-9523873