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The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has awarded UK-based Cavendish Nuclear, a subsidiary of Babcock International Group, a contract to support of the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) in Fukui Prefecture.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscavendish-contracted-to-support-decommissioning-of-japans-monju-reactor-10831730
Cavendish said the contract builds on its experience of decommissioning fast reactors in the UK. The company will use the skills and experience gained during the decommissioning of the fast reactors at Dounreay, which are at an advanced stage of cleanout and dismantling.
The main elements of the contract with JAEA involve technical support for creating a lifetime plan for the decommissioning of Monju and a feasibility study into the treatment of sodium coolant from the Monju site.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 30 August 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/uk-s-cavendish-wins-japan-fbr-decommissioning-contract-8-4-2019
Nuvia (UK) announced on 29 August that it has secured a multi-million-pound contract for Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) to design, procure, install and commission plant and equipment to remove the residual NaK (Sodium-Potassium) remaining in the Dounreay Fast Reactor’s (DFR) complex piping network. DFR was built during the 1950s at a time when there was a worldwide shortage of uranium for electricity generation and became the world’s first fast reactor to provide electricity to a national grid.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 August 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuvia-wins-contract-to-remove-coolant-from-dounreay-fast-reactor-6728387
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