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A new technique to remove sludge from nuclear fuel ponds has been successfully trialled at the Deep Recovery Facility (DRF) operated by UK engineering firm Forth. The facility has been used by the UK-based Decommissioning Alliance (TDA), which is tasked with installing equipment to allow operators to safely retrieve debris from the bottom of fuel ponds at sites operated by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinnovative-nuclear-sludge-retrieval-technique-trialled-at-forths-deep-recovery-facility-10853857

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has awarded UK-based Cavendish Nuclear, a subsidiary of Babcock International Group, a contract to support of the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) in Fukui Prefecture.

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscavendish-contracted-to-support-decommissioning-of-japans-monju-reactor-10831730

UK Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has launched a strategy focused on key objectives “to ensure that the right waste form, in the right package, is managed or disposed of at the right facility”. According to the 42-page document, “NWS will support accelerated decommissioning through innovation, with legacy and future waste streams managed in the most sustainable and efficient way through technology development, expertise and setting worldwide standards to provide value for the UK.”

Date: Friday, 28 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-details-strategy-for-nuclear-waste-management-10794613

The Nuclear Waste Services strategy for the UK aims to "make nuclear waste permanently safe, sooner".

Date: Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-launches-Nuclear-Waste-Services-strategy

For the first time in over 60 years divers have entered Sellafield's Pile Fuel Storage Pond. As they clear some of the most challenging spots to clean up, drones and robots are taking on an increasing share of hazardous work elsewhere at the site.

Date: Thursday, 06 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Dive-team-enters-Sellafield-pond

The UK's Sellafield nuclear facility has unveiled its AI (artificial intelligence) strategy intended to improve efficiency and safety, with the goal that by 2032 "AI will be driving safer, faster and better performance across our facilities and business functions, with established advisory systems and non-safety-critical automation".

Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-unveils-AI-strategy-to-accelerate-clean

UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR says its £500m ($600m) small modular reactor (SMR) programme will run out of cash by the end of 2024, Reuters has reported. Alastair Evans, Government & Corporate Affairs Director at Rolls-Royce SMR noted: "We aren't asking the government to make an order (for the nuclear units) today but we need to start negotiations on a deployment plan by the middle of this year. We are facing a cliff edge, by December 2024 the money will have run out." This would put at risk UK government plans to use SMRs to boost energy security and achieve climate targets.

Date: Saturday, 04 March 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrolls-royce-smr-faces-financial-problems-10648145

UK company Rolls-Royce SMR has visited the sites of the decommissioned Oldbury and Berkeley NPP reactors in Gloucestershire (southwest UK) for talks with stakeholders from communities around the plants. The two unit Berkeley NPP was closed in 1988-89, and the two unit Oldbury plant in 2011-12, and are now the responsibility of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrolls-royce-visits-two-potential-uk-sites-for-its-first-smrs-10523038

Five major companies have made key announcements on their plans to advance small modular reactor (SMR) deployment in the UK. While Rolls-Royce SMR shortlisted three sites for a factory to produce component for its planned SMR; Balfour Beatty and Holtec with Hyundai agreed to support plans for the construction of Holtec’s SMR-160; and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) submitted a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) application for its BWRX-300 SMR to the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Date: Friday, 23 December 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmr-competition-heats-up-in-the-uk-10456556

A technique has been developed to suck up and move a sludgy radioactive substance, known as flocculant, currently stored in legacy effluent tanks at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, UK.

Date: Tuesday, 20 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Method-developed-for-Sellafield-floc-retrieval