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‘Hazardous’ facility at UK nuclear site dates back to 1950s
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 17 August 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/work-begins-to-remove-historic-radioactive-waste-from-ageing-silo-8-3-2023
Graphitech, a joint venture established in 2020 by French companies EDF and Veolia, has signed a contract with Lithuania’s State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) for reactor dismantling services. Under the four-year contract Graphitech will provide engineering solutions for the dismantling of the two Soviet-era RBMK reactors at INPP.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 28 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrench-joint-venture-contracted-to-support-dismantling-of-ignalina-npp-10548075
The Magnox Reprocessing Plant at the UK’s Sellafield site took its final feed of used fuel just before midnight on 17 July. Fuel was fed into the plant’s charge machine, then dissolved in nitric acid to separate out the plutonium and uranium – the last of approximately 55,000 tonnes of Magnox fuel to be reprocessed at the facility during 58 years of operations. The building and its supporting plants will soon begin a new period of clean-out and decommissioning.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 27 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-magnox-reprocessing-plant-closes-9877750
Just before midnight on 17 July, the final feed of used fuel was fed into Sellafield's Magnox Reprocessing Plant's charge machine and dissolved in nitric acid to separate out the plutonium and uranium. It is a process which has been used to reprocess nearly 55,000 tonnes of Magnox fuel since 1964.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-ends-nuclear-fuel-reprocessing-after-58
Since the global outbreak of COVID-19, Sellafield Ltd says it has taken some precautionary actions at its site in north-west England, including the controlled shutdown of the Magnox Reprocessing Plant. The reprocessing plant is approaching its 60th year and is a complex chemical facility designed to process and separate plutonium and uranium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-starts-controlled-shutdown-of-Magnox-fa
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
Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years, until 2003, and the defueling operation began in 2011.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-completes-defueling-of-Calder-Hall
Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years, until 2003, and the defueling operation began in 2011.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sellafield-completes-defueling-of-Calder-Hall
UK-based design, engineering and project management consultancy Atkins has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE), along with joint venture partners Westinghouse and Fluor, to operate the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 04 October 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-contract-for-depleted-uranium-conversion-5023432
The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on 5 January released for formal consultation its draft Strategy and Business Plan for 2016-2019 which reflect the NDA's five-year budget as determined through the government's November Spending Review.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 07 January 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-nda-reveals-its-strategy-and-business-plans-4770457