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All licences and assets of unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania will be transferred to a subsidiary of EnergySolutions under an agreement signed yesterday by US utility FirstEnergy and EnergySolutions. The reactor, which suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 and never reopened, will then be decommissioned.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 17 October 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EnergySolutions-takes-on-TMI-2-for-decommissioning

Ahead of its decommissioning, the low-enriched uranium fuel has been removed from the Saskatchewan Research Council's (SRC's) Slowpoke-2 research reactor in Saskatoon and transported to the USA.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Saturday, 28 September 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Defuelling-completed-at-Canadian-research-reactor

The Pilgrim plant in Massachusetts. Photo courtesy NRC. US-based Holtec said it will contract Comprehensive Decommissioning International (CDI) to carry out decommissioning, including demolition and site clean-up, at the recently acquired single-unit Pilgrim nuclear power station in Massachusetts.

CDI is a joint venture company of Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin of Canada.

Holtec said Pilgrim’s decommissioning will make the 1700-acre site fit for commercial or industrial use except for a small parcel of land where the dry storage casks will remain to be held.

The first steps in the decommissioning process will include the transfer of the plant’s used nuclear fuel from its spent fuel pool to a robust dry storage system onsite, Holtec said.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Thursday, 29 August 2019
Original article: nucnet.org/news/holtec-to-contract-cdi-for-plant-decommissioning-work-8-3-2019