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Operators at the UK’s Sellafield site have removed the first zeolite skip from the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP) to a self-shielded box, which was then placed in the new Interim Storage Facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 29 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-begins-removal-of-zeolite-skips-from-legacy-pond-to-new-storage-11640320
The first of 237 zeolite skips has been removed from Sellafield's First Generation Magnox Storage Pond, which has been prioritised for clean-up by the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-zeolite-skip-removed-from-Sellafield-pond
The Magnox reprocessing plant at Sellafield will end its operations in July, marking the completion of the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's (NDA) Magnox Operating Programme.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-reprocessing-plant-to-end-operations
The UK government is in discussions regarding proposals for a new nuclear power plant at Wylfa on Anglesey, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on 2 October in an interview with BBC Wales. He said previous governments in the country "have refused to take the tough decisions on nuclear for too long." Meanwhile, EDF Energy has called for the government to make prompt decisions regarding the Sizewell C project.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-needs-new-nuclear,-says-Prime-Minister
World Nuclear Association was invited to present this week at the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future. Mikhail Baryshnikov (TENEX) and Cecile Evans (Orano), chair and deputy chair of the Sustainable Used Fuel Management Working Group, share the industry’s message.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-The-sustainability-of-used-nuclear-fuel-man
Horizon Nuclear Power today outlined the procedure it will follow now that its new-build projects have been suspended. The UK subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi said it had made substantial progress with its plans to provide at least 5.4 GWe of new capacity across two sites - Wylfa Newydd, in north Wales, and Oldbury-on-Severn, in southwest England - by deploying Hitachi-GE UK advanced boiling reactors (UK ABWRs).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 18 January 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-next-steps-for-Horizon
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on 7 November approved an extension of operations for the 40-year-old unit II reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co’s (JAPC’s) Tokai NPP in Ibaraki Prefecture. Tokai II's current operating licence is due to expire on 28 November. The 1,060MWe unit is the first boiling water reactor (BWR) to be approved for a 20-year lifetime extension. JAPC, which is owned by the country's main utilities, is required to complete safety upgrades, including construction of a 1.7km coastal levee, providing protection against a potential tsunami up to 17.1 metres high. Costs for safety measures at the plant are estimated at some JPY180 billion ($1.6 billion).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 08 November 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-regulator-approves-life-extension-for-tokai-ii-6842096
Japan Atomic Power Company’s (JAPC’s) ageing single unit Tokai II NPP in Ibaraki Prefecture has passed the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s (NRA’s) tougher safety standards, but still requires further NRA approvals to keep the plant in service after it reaches the government’s operational limit of 40 years on 27 November.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 02 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmixed-news-for-japans-reactor-restarts-6779323
The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced the winners of its 2017 NDA Estate Supply Chain Awards, recognising excellence in skills and capacity building, technical innovation, collaboration and export success across its suppliers.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 02 November 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnda-commends-supply-chain-5962861
UK-based design, engineering and project management consultancy Atkins has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE), along with joint venture partners Westinghouse and Fluor, to operate the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 04 October 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-contract-for-depleted-uranium-conversion-5023432