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A new specialist nuclear transport organisation has officially launched today in the UK. Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS), part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), operates Direct Rail Services (DRS) and Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL), which offer rail and shipping services, respectively. The NDA is also in the process of integrating its radioactive waste management businesses.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 20 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UKs-NDA-launches-new-nuclear-transport-division
A shipment of samples of plutonium oxide is en route from the UK to a laboratory at Orano's Melox plant in southern France. The samples will be used to determine if the plutonium can be used in the production of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 29 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-plutonium-samples-shipped-to-France
Reprocessing operations have ended at the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) at the Sellafield site in the UK after 24 years. The facility will now be used to store used nuclear fuel until the 2070s.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 14 November 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Reprocessing-ceases-at-UKs-Thorp-plant
The second and final shipment of high-level waste (HLW) from the UK to Switzerland has been completed. The waste resulted from the reprocessing and recycling of used nuclear fuel from Swiss nuclear power plants at Sellafield.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 17 October 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-completes-return-of-Swiss-reprocessing-waste
The UK, US, and EU have agreed to turn the UK's excess stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU) into medical isotopes to be used in cancer treatment, according to a 31 March statement by the UK Prime Minister's Office. The agreement was concluded in the framework of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 April 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuranium-swap-agreed-by-uk-us-and-eu-4857081
Sellafield Ltd, the company managing the UK's fuel cycle complex in Cumbria, has announced the preferred bidder for a project to create a custom waste treatment plant to process legacy fuel materials from the UK's first generation Magnox nuclear fleet.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfranco-british-consortium-in-line-for-magnox-clean-up-project-4215434
The UK government has agreed that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority can conduct a series of plutonium title swaps and title transfers with legacy overseas reprocessing customers.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2013
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-government-agrees-plutonium-swaps
The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has taken ownership of four tonnes of German plutonium, by participating in a series of title swaps. An equivalent amount of plutonium will be made available in France for manufacture into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for German reactors, removing the need for the UK to physically transport the plutonium to France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 17 July 2012
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnda-takes-ownership-of-german-plutonium
NuGeneration Ltd (NuGen), the nuclear new-build consortium of GDF Suez, Iberdrola and Scottish and Southern Energy held an event for the northwest England host location planned for a power station up to 3.6GW. The company has opened offices in Westlakes Science Park.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 31 January 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsthird-uk-new-build-consortium-meets-the-locals
High-level radioactive waste from used nuclear fuel sent to the UK for reprocessing will be returned to its country of origin under a program to begin this financial year, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2009
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-vitrified-waste-returns-set-to-begin