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Industrial service provider Altrad has been awarded a four-year contract by Magnox Limited for the provision of support services across six sites undergoing decommissioning in the United Kingdom.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsaltrad-secures-uk-decommissioning-contract-8202934
Since the global outbreak of COVID-19, Sellafield Ltd says it has taken some precautionary actions at its site in north-west England, including the controlled shutdown of the Magnox Reprocessing Plant. The reprocessing plant is approaching its 60th year and is a complex chemical facility designed to process and separate plutonium and uranium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-starts-controlled-shutdown-of-Magnox-fa
The UK has a total of 4,560,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste, according to the 2019 United Kingdom Radioactive Waste & Materials Inventory, published on 10 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-updates-radioactive-waste-inventory-7609572
The UK's Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) has published a document setting out the broad framework within which it will operate. The framework replaces its terms of reference.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-develops-role-of-Committee-on-Radioactive-Waste
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on 3 September took ownership of Magnox Ltd, which is responsible for the cleanup of 12 nuclear sites and operation of one hydroelectric plant in the UK.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 06 September 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-nda-takes-over-magnox-7400384
Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years, until 2003, and the defueling operation began in 2011.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-completes-defueling-of-Calder-Hall
Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years, until 2003, and the defueling operation began in 2011.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-completes-defueling-of-Calder-Hall
World Nuclear Association was invited to present this week at the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future. Mikhail Baryshnikov (TENEX) and Cecile Evans (Orano), chair and deputy chair of the Sustainable Used Fuel Management Working Group, share the industry’s message.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-The-sustainability-of-used-nuclear-fuel-man
Sellafield Ltd has awarded four 20-year contracts which together form the new Programme and Project Partnership (PPP). The company said it will work collaboratively with the four partners - Doosan Babcock Ltd, Kellogg Brown & Root Ltd, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure and Wood plc - to deliver major projects in support of the site's 100-year decommissioning programme.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 09 May 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Partnerships-announced-for-Sellafield-decommission
Horizon Nuclear Power today outlined the procedure it will follow now that its new-build projects have been suspended. The UK subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi said it had made substantial progress with its plans to provide at least 5.4 GWe of new capacity across two sites - Wylfa Newydd, in north Wales, and Oldbury-on-Severn, in southwest England - by deploying Hitachi-GE UK advanced boiling reactors (UK ABWRs).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 18 January 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-next-steps-for-Horizon