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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
The Unit B2 (Reactor 4) of the Hunterston NPP in North Ayrshire, Scotland, was permanently shut down on 7 January after generating electricity for 46 years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinal-shutdown-for-uks-hunterston-b-9388015
The UK’s Magnox Limited said on 12 May that it had delivered a major decommissioning milestone at its Chapelcross NPP Site with the first active waste package placed into the site’s storage facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdecommissioning-milestone-at-uks-chapelcross-npp-8751458
The Chapelcross Site’s storage facility has taken its first active waste package - a Ductile Cast Iron Container with waste from the site’s former cooling pond, Magnox Limited announced today.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 15 May 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chapelcross-ISF-receives-first-container-of-waste
Yesterday marked 60 years since the opening of the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria in England. Opened on 17 October 1956 by Queen Elizabeth II, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-marks-60th-anniversary-of-Calder-Hall