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Soviet-designed Ignalina could be the first graphite-moderated reactor facility to be dismantled, making it an important test bed for methodologies that could be used to decommission the UK’s Magnox and advanced gas-cooled reactors, which also have graphite cores.
Ignalina’s two Soviet-era RBMK units were shut down permanently in 2004 and 2009 in line with requirements for Lithuania’s membership of the EU.
Jacobs formed part of a project management unit for a set of purpose-built facilities needed to decommission the station, as part of a programme led by the European Union and 14 European governments through the Ignalina International Decommissioning Support Fund, which is managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 06 January 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/consortium-chosen-to-plan-dismantling-and-waste-management-at-ignalina-1-4-2023
Workers have started removing used nuclear fuel from the reactors at the UK’s Hunterston B NPP in Scotland, EDF Energy said. The station stopped generating electricity in January. Since then the workforce has been carrying out a statutory outage to ensure the two units are ready for defuelling.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdefuelling-of-uks-hunterston-b-npp-begins-9722805
The UK’s Magnox reprocessing plant at Sellafield will stop reprocessing in July 2022 and enter a new era of clean-up and decommissioning, Sellafield said on 17 May. The plant, which began operating in 1964, has played a crucial role in UK energy generation. It received and reprocessed nearly 55,000 tonnes of used nuclear fuel from power stations across the country, and from Italy and Japan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-to-close-magnox-reprocessing-plant-at-sellafield-9711103
The Magnox reprocessing plant at Sellafield will end its operations in July, marking the completion of the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's (NDA) Magnox Operating Programme.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-reprocessing-plant-to-end-operations
The final used nuclear fuel has been shipped from the Wylfa site on Anglesey, in Wales, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said today. The milestone marks the end of a programme to defuel all of the country's Magnox sites.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 20 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-removal-completed-at-Wylfa
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
Hazard reduction at the site of the UK’s former Wylfa NPP on Anglesey has reached a significant milestone, with 75% of the used fuel removed from the two reactors, Magnox Limited announced on 24 October. The fuel is transported to Sellafield in Cumbria for reprocessing.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 31 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdecommissioning-progress-at-uks-wylfa-site-6828214
A team of 12 specialist nuclear divers from Underwater Construction UK Ltd has completed their mission to deal with radioactive waste in Sizewell A's nuclear fuel storage ponds, nearly two months ahead of schedule, Magnox Ltd reported on 1 August.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 06 August 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdivers-complete-waste-management-at-sizewell-a-ponds-6698252
Magnox Ltd announced in July that the former Bradwell nuclear site in the UK is entering into the next phase of decommissioning following removal of the last of its radioactive waste.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 31 July 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswaste-removal-completed-at-uks-bradwell-nuclear-site-6271551
Funding of GBP3m ($3.65m) is being offered by the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Innovate UK to develop and demonstrate technologies that could help resolve some of the complex challenges associated with dismantling facilities at the Sellafield site, a 12 January statement said. The two government bodies are collaborating to encourage innovation by sharing the investment among organisations whose proposals will be selected through a competition that starts on 30 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-funding-for-innovative-solutions-5716946