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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.

Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-The-sustainability-of-used-nuclear-fuel-man

UK radioactive waste treatment and disposal services Tradebe Inutec is expected to be confirmed as a Winfrith Nuclear Site Licensee by mid-2018. Tradebe Inutec, based in Dorset processes a wide range of low-level radioactive waste (LLW) and will use its capability under its own nuclear site licence to establish a centre of excellence for the treatment of problematic and borderline intermediate-level waste (ILW).

Date: Wednesday, 08 November 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswinfrith-nuclear-site-licence-expected-for-tradebe-inutec-5967367

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.

Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfranco-british-consortium-in-line-for-magnox-clean-up-project-4215434

Japan’s Electric Power Development Co has decided to delay the construction of its Ohma nuclear power plant indefinitely.

Date: Tuesday, 03 April 2012
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsj-power-delays-construction-of-ohma-nuclear-plant

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

Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium

The Italian Parliament has overturned a ban on civil nuclear power that dates back to 1987, a year after Chernobyl.

Date: Friday, 10 July 2009
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsitaly-overturns-nuclear-ban