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US-based Bechtel has been selected by European enrichment services and fuel cycle company Urenco to support the expansion of its Tails Management Facility (TMF) at the Capenhurst site in the UK. The facility stores low concentration uranium tails for further use, or conversion to a chemically stable form for disposal. Urenco says the TMF will help enable the UK’s nuclear energy security strategy, which includes plans to deliver 24 GWe of new nuclear capacity by 2050, providing about a quarter of the domestic electricity supply. ?
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 09 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbechtel-to-support-urencos-expansion-activities-in-the-uk-11282460
Five major companies have made key announcements on their plans to advance small modular reactor (SMR) deployment in the UK. While Rolls-Royce SMR shortlisted three sites for a factory to produce component for its planned SMR; Balfour Beatty and Holtec with Hyundai agreed to support plans for the construction of Holtec’s SMR-160; and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) submitted a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) application for its BWRX-300 SMR to the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 23 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmr-competition-heats-up-in-the-uk-10456556
The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have completed the transfer of around 700kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Dounreay, in northern Scotland, to the USA.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsheu-removed-from-dounreay-to-usa-7195680
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
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
Leaked memoranda from the US embassy in London to Washington from 2007-9 reveal angst over Iran’s nuclear power programme, concern about international fuel banks, and the head of the IAEA, according to a series of nuclear power-related documents published by Wikileaks and UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph earlier this year. The most notable findings are summarized below.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 04 March 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswikileaks-reveals-art-of-nuclear-diplomacy
Fifty years ago, on 14 November 1959, the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) first went critical. Three years later it became the first fast reactor in the world to supply power to the grid. The future of the iconic white ‘dome’, currently being decommissioned, will be determined by the mid-2010.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdounreay-fast-reactor-celebrates-fifty-years
A spokesman said on April 14 that North Korea is ceasing cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnorth-korea-kicks-out-iaea