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UK-based TSP Engineering will produce transport packages for Sellafield Ltd’s decommissioning programme, Sellafield said on 6 August. The 50-tonne, lead-lined containers will transfer nuclear waste from the legacy Magnox Swarf Storage Silo to newly built storage facilities on the Sellafield site. The work is expected to create or sustain approximately 200 jobs at TSP Engineering.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 14 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstransport-packages-ordered-for-sellafield-legacy-waste-8081687
The UK on 27 July launched a £3.9 million ($5m) competition to find innovative ways to sort and segregate radioactive waste at some of the UK’s oldest nuclear sites.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 31 July 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-seeks-innovative-methods-for-waste-segregation-8053024
The UK has launched a GBP3.9 million (USD5.0 million) competition to find innovative ways to sort and segregate radioactive waste at some of its oldest nuclear sites. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - including Sellafield Ltd and Magnox Ltd - has teamed up with Innovate UK to call on companies to "come up with new ideas and innovative approaches to the challenge".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 29 July 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-invites-innovation-in-radwaste-management
The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has produced an overview of the Cross-industry Learning initiative series of workshops it has been having over the last two years. Each workshop has been based on a series of themes of common interest originally agreed with the Oil and Gas Authority, but now more than 100 organisations, including authorities, academics and regulators have benefitted from sharing "what good looks like, and occasionally what it doesn’t", the NDA said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 June 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Industries-can-share-lessons-from-decommissioning
UK-based LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) has awarded a four-year framework contract, worth up to £65 million, for the treatment of metallic radioactive waste.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 May 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuks-llwr-awards-metal-framework-contracts-7934312
US-based Jacobs announced it has been selected by Radioactive Waste Management Ltd (RWM) to study the release of radioactivity from irradiated graphite sampled from reactor cores of UK nuclear power stations.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjacobs-to-study-irradiated-graphite-for-uk-radioactive-waste-management-ltd-7920750
The UK has a total of 4,560,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste, according to the 2019 United Kingdom Radioactive Waste & Materials Inventory, published on 10 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-updates-radioactive-waste-inventory-7609572
The UK's Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) has published a document setting out the broad framework within which it will operate. The framework replaces its terms of reference.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-develops-role-of-Committee-on-Radioactive-Waste
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is to decommission the reactor internals and reactor pressure vessel at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant under a contract awarded by Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin joint venture Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 05 December 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/GEH-contracted-for-Pilgrim-internals-dismantling
Two consortia, led by Barrnon and Wood, have reached the next round of an innovation competition that could help decommission radioactive facilities at Sellafield, the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has revealed. The projects were among five collaborative consortia, comprising almost 30 organisations, which have developed projects over the past two years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 03 December 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbarrnon-and-wood-progress-in-uk-nda-innovation-competition-7534667