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The latest annual report from the UK National Decommissioning Authority (NDA), published on 19 July, says that the organisation stayed within its allocated budget despite the additional financial burden of around £100m ($130m) “in legal and settlement costs arising from the litigation over the placing of the Magnox contract”. The NDA was established in 2004 to ensure the safe and efficient clean-up of the UK’s nuclear legacy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnda-stayed-within-budget-in-201617-5878699
The UK government on 27 March announced an independent inquiry into the conduct of a 2012 procurement process run by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) that resulted in a 14-year £6.1bn ($7.6bn) management and decommissioning contract being awarded in September 2014 to the Cavendish Fluor Partnership.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnda-pulls-contract-with-cavendish-fluor-5772781
Yesterday marked 60 years since the opening of the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria in England. Opened on 17 October 1956 by Queen Elizabeth II, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-marks-60th-anniversary-of-Calder-Hall
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
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
Sellafield Ltd, the company managing the UK's fuel cycle complex in Cumbria, has announced the preferred bidder for a project to create a custom waste treatment plant to process legacy fuel materials from the UK's first generation Magnox nuclear fleet.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfranco-british-consortium-in-line-for-magnox-clean-up-project-4215434
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