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The UK's 140-tonne stockpile of civil plutonium could be used as fuel for thermal reactors or combined with the country's 100,000-tonne supply of depleted, natural and low-enriched uranium to fuel new fast reactors - or disposed of as waste in a future geological disposal facility - says a new report from The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute exploring the options.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/What-to-do-with-the-UK-s-civil-plutonium-stockpile
‘Hazardous’ facility at UK nuclear site dates back to 1950s
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 17 August 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/work-begins-to-remove-historic-radioactive-waste-from-ageing-silo-8-3-2023
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
Just before midnight on 17 July, the final feed of used fuel was fed into Sellafield's Magnox Reprocessing Plant's charge machine and dissolved in nitric acid to separate out the plutonium and uranium. It is a process which has been used to reprocess nearly 55,000 tonnes of Magnox fuel since 1964.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-ends-nuclear-fuel-reprocessing-after-58
A shipment of samples of plutonium oxide is en route from the UK to a laboratory at Orano's Melox plant in southern France. The samples will be used to determine if the plutonium can be used in the production of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 29 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-plutonium-samples-shipped-to-France
Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years, until 2003, and the defueling operation began in 2011.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-completes-defueling-of-Calder-Hall
Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years, until 2003, and the defueling operation began in 2011.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-completes-defueling-of-Calder-Hall
The second and final shipment of high-level waste (HLW) from the UK to Switzerland has been completed. The waste resulted from the reprocessing and recycling of used nuclear fuel from Swiss nuclear power plants at Sellafield.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 17 October 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-completes-return-of-Swiss-reprocessing-waste
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
Workers at the UK Sellafield site have completed the complex task of removing stocks of legacy nuclear fuel from the Pile Fuel Storage Pond - the most significant clean-up step in Sellafield's history. Radioactivity at the 68-year-old pond has been reduced by 70%. The pond was used to cool nuclear fuel rods after they had been burned in the old Windscale Pile reactors to create weapons material in the 1940s and 50s.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 02 March 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmilestone-clean-up-task-completed-at-sellafield-4827726