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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
The UK’s Magnox reprocessing plant at Sellafield will stop reprocessing in July 2022 and enter a new era of clean-up and decommissioning, Sellafield said on 17 May. The plant, which began operating in 1964, has played a crucial role in UK energy generation. It received and reprocessed nearly 55,000 tonnes of used nuclear fuel from power stations across the country, and from Italy and Japan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-to-close-magnox-reprocessing-plant-at-sellafield-9711103
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 final used nuclear fuel has been shipped from the Wylfa site on Anglesey, in Wales, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said today. The milestone marks the end of a programme to defuel all of the country's Magnox sites.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 20 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-removal-completed-at-Wylfa
Hazard reduction at the site of the UK’s former Wylfa NPP on Anglesey has reached a significant milestone, with 75% of the used fuel removed from the two reactors, Magnox Limited announced on 24 October. The fuel is transported to Sellafield in Cumbria for reprocessing.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 31 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdecommissioning-progress-at-uks-wylfa-site-6828214
A team of 12 specialist nuclear divers from Underwater Construction UK Ltd has completed their mission to deal with radioactive waste in Sizewell A's nuclear fuel storage ponds, nearly two months ahead of schedule, Magnox Ltd reported on 1 August.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 06 August 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdivers-complete-waste-management-at-sizewell-a-ponds-6698252
Funding of GBP3m ($3.65m) is being offered by the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Innovate UK to develop and demonstrate technologies that could help resolve some of the complex challenges associated with dismantling facilities at the Sellafield site, a 12 January statement said. The two government bodies are collaborating to encourage innovation by sharing the investment among organisations whose proposals will be selected through a competition that starts on 30 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-funding-for-innovative-solutions-5716946
After four years of work, more than 10,000 square metres of walls, floors and ceilings at the ponds complex of the UK’s closed Bradwell NPP have been decontaminated, contractor Magnox said on 20 September. The ponds, which were used to temporarily store and cool used nuclear fuel before it was sent to Sellafield for reprocessing, were drained and stabilised in 2012. Since then, work has continued to remove redundant equipment and decontaminate the rest of the associated buildings and infrastructure. One of the next phases of work at the Bradwell site will be to demolish the redundant ponds building and remaining ancillary buildings, followed by installation of weatherproof cladding over the remaining buildings. There are two gas-cooled reactors at Bradwell, but both were permanently shut down in 2002.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 22 September 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsclean-up-milestone-at-uks-bradwell-npp-5013314
Magnox Limited has announced the completion of fuel removal from unit 1 of the Oldbury nuclear power plant in the UK as well as the retrieval of all fuel element debris from underground vaults at the Bradwell site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2015
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Decommissioning-milestones-at-Magnox-sites
The removal of highly radioactive sludge from an ageing fuel storage pond at the Sellafield site in Cumbria started on 23 of March, says the UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssludge-removal-starts-at-sellafield-4539022