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The UK's Environment Agency has agreed to changes to the environmental permit for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England, allowing used nuclear fuel from the plant to be stored in a dry storage facility rather than a wet facility, as originally planned.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 08 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Regulator-approves-change-to-dry-storage-at-HPC
Workers have started removing used nuclear fuel from the reactors at the UK’s Hunterston B NPP in Scotland, EDF Energy said. The station stopped generating electricity in January. Since then the workforce has been carrying out a statutory outage to ensure the two units are ready for defuelling.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdefuelling-of-uks-hunterston-b-npp-begins-9722805
EDF Energy will 'get on with' work to construct two EPR units at Sizewell C in Suffolk, UK, as soon as it receives government permission, which could come within six months, said the project's director of financing, Julia Pyke. She added that the company is working to fuel the reactors with recycled uranium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sizewell-C-could-use-recycled-uranium