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A state-of-the-art Glove Box Training Facility for the UK nuclear industry has been opened at Sellafield. Glove boxes are crucial to operations at nuclear sites enabling operators to handle hazardous material in a safe and controlled environment. However, their use requires high levels of skill and dexterity. The new facility will reduce the amount of training done within plants and provide a standardised approach across the sector. It was delivered by the UK Alpha Resilience & Capability (ARC) programme.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 12 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsstate-of-the-art-glove-box-training-facility-opens-at-sellafield-11210165
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
British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear has been awarded a contract by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to provide specialist capability in support of the decommissioning of the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (PFR).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Monju-sodium-to-be-processed-in-the-UK
UK Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has launched a strategy focused on key objectives “to ensure that the right waste form, in the right package, is managed or disposed of at the right facility”. According to the 42-page document, “NWS will support accelerated decommissioning through innovation, with legacy and future waste streams managed in the most sustainable and efficient way through technology development, expertise and setting worldwide standards to provide value for the UK.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 28 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-details-strategy-for-nuclear-waste-management-10794613
Workers at the UK’s former fast reactor test facility at Dounreay in Scotland - which operated from 1955 to 1994 - have completed the first in a series of campaigns to seal the waste containers into place in the two near-surface low-level waste (LLW) disposal vaults at the site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-containers-sealed-dounreay-low-level-waste-vaults-10074918
The Magnox reprocessing plant at the Sellafield site in Cumbria has reprocessed the final box of used fuel from the UK's fast reactor programme being stored in the plant's ponds. Meanwhile, preparations are being made for the demolition of the iconic Pile One chimney that dominated the landscape over Sellafield for decades.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-processes-last-of-fast-reactor-fuel
UK-based Turner & Townsend (T&T) and Arcadis have been re-appointed to provide project controls and commercial services to support the decommissioning and management of UK nuclear sites by Magnox Ltd.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsturner-townsend-and-arcadis-reappointed-to-support-magnox-9523873
Nuclear Waste Services has been launched, bringing together into one organisation site operator Low Level Waste Repository Limited, geological disposal facility developer Radioactive Waste Management Limited and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group's Integrated Waste Management Programme.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 01 February 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-launches-consolidated-radwaste-organisation
A new specialist nuclear transport organisation has officially launched today in the UK. Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS), part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), operates Direct Rail Services (DRS) and Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL), which offer rail and shipping services, respectively. The NDA is also in the process of integrating its radioactive waste management businesses.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 20 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UKs-NDA-launches-new-nuclear-transport-division
The UK has a total of 4,560,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste, according to the 2019 United Kingdom Radioactive Waste & Materials Inventory, published on 10 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-updates-radioactive-waste-inventory-7609572