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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
Frazer-Nash is to provide engineering services related to the fabrication of the graphite moderator for Terrestrial Energy's Integrated Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) under a newly announced contract between the two companies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 29 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Frazer-Nash-to-support-IMSR-graphite-moderator-fab
The government said the move was finalised after ownership transferred from the Cavendish Fluor Partnership.
This follows an announcement made in July 2018 and marks a new approach to managing the UK’s 13 Magnox sites – 10 former Magnox nuclear power stations, two nuclear research sites and a hydroelectric plant.
Magnox chief executive officer Gwen Parry-Jones said being an NDA subsidiary gives Magnox more opportunities to work closely as part of the NDA group, share ideas and take a more flexible approach to decommissioning the UK’s first generation of nuclear power stations.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/company-becomes-wholly-owned-subsidiary-of-nda-9-1-2019
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).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 08 November 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswinfrith-nuclear-site-licence-expected-for-tradebe-inutec-5967367
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