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The Imperial College Reactor Centre (ICRC), part of Imperial College London, has become the first reactor site to be fully decommissioned in UK nuclear history under modern regulatory controls. The site was delicensed by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) following years of work to defuel and then decommission the site in Ascot after the shutdown of the consort research reactor in 2012.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-completes-first-full-decommissioning-of-reactor-site-under-modern-regulatory-controls-11560248
The Imperial College Reactor Centre in Ascot, England, has become the first reactor site to be fully decommissioned in the UK under modern regulatory controls, the country's Office for Nuclear Regulation has announced.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-research-reactor-fully-decommissioned
Site holds 85% of all UK’s nuclear waste, much of which is stored in ageing facilities
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 17 February 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/spending-watchdog-launches-investigation-into-risks-and-costs-2-5-2024
Newcleo's UK operations managing director sets out the benefits of its lead-cooled fast reactor technology, its plans for a demonstrator reactor and MOX fuel factory in France, and its future goal of rolling out up to 20 of its reactors in the UK.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 02 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Podcast-Newcleo-s-Andrew-Murdoch-on-its-lead-coole
Sellafield’s newly-opened Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store (BEPPS) has received its first box of nuclear waste.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-waste-package-for-new-sellafield-store-11390544
UK engineers from University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Heriot-Watt University are developing the Symbiotic Multi-Robot Fleet (SMuRF) system, which could help with NPP decommissioning.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscollaborating-robot-fleet-may-support-npp-decommissioning-11387398
The newly-opened Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store - Direct Import Facility at the Sellafield site in the UK has received its first box of historical radioactive waste.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 21 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-waste-received-by-new-Sellafield-transfer-fa
Teams of autonomous robots known as SMuRFs (for Symbiotic Multi-Robot Fleet) could assist in the future decommissioning of nuclear power plants, according to researchers from four British universities.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/SMuRFs-to-help-in-nuclear-decommissioning
The Guardian newspaper has recently published two articles about the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA’s) Sellafield site, both of which have been strongly repudiated by Sellafield Ltd.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-repudiates-guardian-articles-on-cyber-attacks-and-leaks-11354910
Guardian newspaper alleges state-backed criminals infiltrated ‘highest echelons’ of nuclear site’s IT systems
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/uk-regulator-denies-claims-of-cyber-attack-by-hackers-linked-to-russia-and-china-12-2-2023