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The UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on 27 November published a report on “The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s management of the Magnox contract”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 01 December 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-public-accounts-committee-criticises-nda-8384919
The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has a "perpetual lack of knowledge" about the state and location of waste on its 17 sites, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says in a report published today. The NDA should set out how it will develop a clearer means of reporting publicly on the level of uncertainty and risk across its sites, and how it will prioritise work on its sites in order to decommission them in the safest and most efficient way, the committee said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 28 November 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NDA-has-lack-of-knowledge-of-nuclear-legacy-sites,
UK-based Sellafield Ltd has signed a two-year contract extension with Atos, a global leader in digital transformation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 30 October 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-ltd-signs-2-year-contract-extension-with-atos-8207066
Industrial service provider Altrad has been awarded a four-year contract by Magnox Limited for the provision of support services across six sites undergoing decommissioning in the United Kingdom.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsaltrad-secures-uk-decommissioning-contract-8202934
Germany’s waste management organisation, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE), on 28 September published an interim report on areas that may be that are unsuitable for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 02 October 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgermanys-bge-reports-on-possible-final-repository-sites-as-uk-prepares-to-return-waste-from-reprocessing-8160198
US-based Jacobs said on 11 August that it is deploying a new type of Raman spectroscopy technology, which makes it safer and cheaper to spot radioactive contamination or other hazardous substances in waste stores and nuclear facilities undergoing decommissioning.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 14 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjacobs-deploys-raman-spectroscopy-to-identify-radioactive-contamination-8080921
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
Jacobs and IS Instruments have designed a new type of Raman spectroscopy technology to detect radioactive contamination or other hazardous substances in waste stores and nuclear facilities undergoing decommissioning.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-detection-technology-to-benefit-decommissionin
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