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The first batch of waste has been removed from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS) at the Sellafield site in the UK. The facility was built in the 1960s to store waste from the UK's earliest nuclear reactors in water-filled chambers.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 11 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Waste-removal-starts-at-Sellafield-facility
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) said on 5 October that it had achieved a breakthrough in hydrogen storage technology using a new magnesium alloy. Storage of hydrogen as a gas typically requires high-pressure tanks (35-70 MPa tank pressure). Storage of hydrogen as a liquid requires cryogenic temperatures because the boiling point of hydrogen at one atmosphere pressure is −252.8°C. Neither of these options are ideal for widespread use, CNL noted.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscnl-reports-breakthrough-in-hydrogen-storage-9138570
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
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
Sellafield Ltd has says a 'significant milestone' has been reached after two million litres of liquid nuclear waste was pumped out of the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS), one of the oldest nuclear waste stores in the world.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-swarf-waste-milestone-4517457