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EDF and Veolia announced they are creating Waste2Glass, an equally-owned joint venture to develop a new sector based on Veolia's Geomelt® vitrification technology. 

Date: Friday, 03 December 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-and-veolia-create-waste2glass-joint-venture-9293751

France's EDF and water, waste and energy management company Veolia will early next year create a joint venture - to be known as Waste2Glass - to develop Veolia's GeoMelt vitrification technology. The partners hope to extend the application of the technology beyond high-level radioactive waste.

Date: Thursday, 02 December 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Joint-venture-to-develop-GeoMelt-vitrification-tec

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.

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.

Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfranco-british-consortium-in-line-for-magnox-clean-up-project-4215434

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

Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium

The Joint Venture to develop new nuclear build at Sellafield, NW England, “NuGen,” has finally been established. Three companies - GDF Suez , Iberdrola and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) – teamed together to buy 190 ha (470 acres) land at Sellafield from the NDA in 2009. The consortium paid an upfront payment of GBP19.5 million, with a further payment of at least GBP50.5 million to follow in the next six years.

Date: Monday, 29 November 2010
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnugen-jv-for-sellafield-new-build-launched