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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
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
The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) are to collaborate on the world's first space battery powered by americium-241. The isotope will be extracted from used nuclear fuel stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NNL-to-develop-americium-powered-space-batteries
IAEA-led international research on the management of severely damaged used nuclear fuel is providing key lessons learned from sites such as Fukushima Daiichi, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and demonstrating the value of global scientific collaboration, IAEA said on 11 March.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 16 March 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-study-looks-at-severely-damaged-used-fuel-10-years-after-fukushima-8601284
Japan is turning to international experts for help with decommissioning its nuclear power plants. Kirill Komarov, first deputy director general for development and international business at Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on 26 November that Rosatom is ready to offer Japan the entire spectrum of services and technologies in the back-end of nuclear fuel cycle.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 26 November 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapan-seeks-international-assistance-for-decommissioning-4738248
The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Agency is seeking proposals on potential alternative approaches for managing the UK’s plutonium stocks alongside providing support to the Government as it progresses its preferred policy of converting the material into Mixed Oxide fuel (MOX) for reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 27 February 2012
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmox-use-proposals-uk-deadline-31-march-2012
The UK Department of Energy & Climate Change has a problem with the world’s largest stocks of reactor-grade plutonium. The international association Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy view this as a one-time opportunity to benefit several advanced nuclear energy developments, none of which are acknowledged by DECC. By Brendan McNamara
Weak, short distance radiation makes it warm; so it is safe to hold but not to swallow. UK reactor grade plutonium is unsuitable for making weapons. And small-scale uses of UK plutonium could never go critical
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium
The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will spend £2.8 billion (EUR 3.2 billion) for the next year (2010/11) across the NDA's estate of 19 sites built in the post-war days of the UK's early nuclear programme.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 01 April 2010
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-nda-releases-2-8-billion-2010-budget
JSC PO Electrochemical Plant, an Atomenergoprom company has commissioned Russia's first commercial plant to reprocess depleted hexafluoride into uranium oxide concentrate. The plant uses Areva NC technology and the pyrohydrolysis method to convert the depleted hex (UF6) into hydrofluoric acid and U3O8, which can be used to produce fuel for fast neutron reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 18 December 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-opens-depleted-hex-reprocessing-plant