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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 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
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
The former cooling ponds at the UK’s Dungeness A nuclear site are being cleaned up by divers who are working under water to dismantle pond skips that were previously used to store used nuclear fuel, according to Magnox Ltd, which manages the site. Magnox, owned by Cavendish Fluor Partnership, is the management and operations contractor responsible for managing the UK's 12 former Magnox NPP sites on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 03 November 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdivers-dismantle-fuel-ponds-at-uks-dungeness-nuclear-site-5658003
Magnox Limited has announced the completion of fuel removal from unit 1 of the Oldbury nuclear power plant in the UK as well as the retrieval of all fuel element debris from underground vaults at the Bradwell site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2015
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Decommissioning-milestones-at-Magnox-sites
Over half the 52,060 used nuclear fuel elements at the former Magnox nuclear power plant at Oldbury in the UK have now been removed from site, two and a half years after the plant generated its last power.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 17 October 2014
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Oldbury-defuelling-reaches-halfway-point
Ten UK universities, the nuclear industry and the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will collaborate in a new £8-9 million ($13-15 million) nuclear research programme, launching in February 2014.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 09 January 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-launches-8-million-nuclear-research-programme-4157757