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Dounreay waste retrieval deal

Waste and Recycling

20 May 2013

Dounreay silo waste (DSRL)UK-based engineering company James Fisher Nuclear has won a £5 million ($7.6 million) contract for the retrieval and processing of radioactive waste from a 65-metre deep shaft and a wet silo at the Dounreay site.

Dounreay raffinate prepared for disposal

Waste and Recycling

10 May 2013

Dounreay raffinate drumming (DSRL) 48Most of the highly active liquid waste produced from the reprocessing of Material Test Reactor fuel at the UK's Dounreay site has now been cemented into drums ready for disposal.

UK decides on Urenco sale

Corporate

22 April 2013

The British government will go ahead with a process to sell its stake in Urenco, subject to security concerns and the company's complex ownership structure.

Contract to lay out new Wylfa plant

New Nuclear

16 May 2013

Wylfa (Magnox Sites)_48Work to develop the design of Horizon Nuclear Power's proposed new plant at Wylfa in the UK is set to start.

UK swaps plutonium to balance MOX policies

Waste and Recycling

23 April 2013

A series of exchanges has seen the UK take control of three tonnes of plutonium it had been storing for foreign firms. The country's goal is to use plutonium stocks as reactor fuel for power generation.

UK nuclear R&D projects secure funding

Corporate

12 April 2013

Snake-arm robot 48A project to develop robotic snakes fitted with lasers for use in nuclear power plants, as well as one to produce cast reactor coolant pumps, are among those that will benefit from recently announced funding from the UK government.