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The Guardian newspaper has recently published two articles about the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA’s) Sellafield site, both of which have been strongly repudiated by Sellafield Ltd.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-repudiates-guardian-articles-on-cyber-attacks-and-leaks-11354910
The UK government is in discussions regarding proposals for a new nuclear power plant at Wylfa on Anglesey, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on 2 October in an interview with BBC Wales. He said previous governments in the country "have refused to take the tough decisions on nuclear for too long." Meanwhile, EDF Energy has called for the government to make prompt decisions regarding the Sizewell C project.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-needs-new-nuclear,-says-Prime-Minister
The UK's Environment Agency (EA) has published its assessment so far of the UK Hualong One pressurised water reactor (UK HPR1000) as it invites public comment on this proposed new reactor design. The UK HPR1000 is the Hualong One design that General Nuclear Services (GNS) - a subsidiary of EDF and China General Nuclear (CGN) - proposes to use at a prospective new nuclear power plant in Bradwell, England.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-HPR1000-design-opened-for-public-comment
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
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
The UK's Bradwell NPP has become the first Magnox site to empty and decontaminate all of its underground waste storage vaults ready for the care and maintenance phase. Magnox Sites, owned by Cavendish Fluor Partnership, is the management and operations contractor responsible for safely managing 12 nuclear sites and one hydroelectric plant in the UK working for the sites' owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuks-bradwell-npp-ready-for-care-and-maintenance-4941321
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said construction of an aluminium "weather envelope" has been built around the two reactor structures at the UK's closed Bradwell nuclear plant in Essex, in preparation for an 80-year period of care and maintenance. The former Magnox nuclear plant operated from 1962 to 2002. The new construction "is the biggest transformation" in the site's appearance since the plant was built in the 1950s, according to NDA.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 23 June 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdecommissioning-progress-at-uk-bradwell-npp-4931906
No serious safety weaknesses have emerged following stress tests at the UK’s non-power generating nuclear facilities, however the Office of Nuclear Regulation has raised 75 issues that must be addressed by licensees.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2012
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-publishes-stress-test-report-for-non-power-generating-nuclear-facilities
The UK Department of Energy & Climate Change has a problem with the world’s largest stocks of reactor-grade plutonium. The international association Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy view this as a one-time opportunity to benefit several advanced nuclear energy developments, none of which are acknowledged by DECC. By Brendan McNamara
Weak, short distance radiation makes it warm; so it is safe to hold but not to swallow. UK reactor grade plutonium is unsuitable for making weapons. And small-scale uses of UK plutonium could never go critical
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium
EnergySolutions has been picked to provide waste management systems for two new CPR-1000 reactors being built at Yangjiang.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 March 2010
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenergysolutions-wins-chinese-waste-contract