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Operators at the UK’s Sellafield site have removed the first zeolite skip from the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP) to a self-shielded box, which was then placed in the new Interim Storage Facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 29 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-begins-removal-of-zeolite-skips-from-legacy-pond-to-new-storage-11640320
The first of 237 zeolite skips has been removed from Sellafield's First Generation Magnox Storage Pond, which has been prioritised for clean-up by the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-zeolite-skip-removed-from-Sellafield-pond
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 UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced the winners of its 2017 NDA Estate Supply Chain Awards, recognising excellence in skills and capacity building, technical innovation, collaboration and export success across its suppliers.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 02 November 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnda-commends-supply-chain-5962861
UK-based design, engineering and project management consultancy Atkins has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE), along with joint venture partners Westinghouse and Fluor, to operate the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 04 October 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-contract-for-depleted-uranium-conversion-5023432
Cold and active commissioning has been completed of the full-scale demonstration GeoMelt In-Container Vitrification (ICV) plant at the UK's Sellafield site. In January 2014, the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and US radioactive waste management specialist Kurion announced a joint project to construct a full-scale demonstration GeoMelt ICV plant at NNL's Central Laboratory on the Sellafield site in Cumbria. The initial non-radioactive phase of the system's commissioning programme was completed in November 2015 at NNL's engineering facility in Workington. The system has since been dismantled, transported to Sellafield and reassembled.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 August 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-vitrification-technology-for-sellafield-4969094
Decommissioning of the UK's Wylfa nuclear power plant on the island of Anglesey will begin in the new year. The plant will be closed by 30 December, after 44 years of operation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 04 December 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-to-close-wylfa-nuclear-plant-by-30-december-4745010
A demonstration plant to vitrify radioactive waste has completed initial commissioning before deployment at the UK's Sellafield site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 23 November 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsvitrification-plant-at-sellafield-completes-cold-testing-4734765
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