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Kozloduy units 1 and 2 receive decommissioning licences
Bulgaria's nuclear regulatory agency has issued licences for the decommissioning of units 1 and 2 of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant.
Regulation & Safety
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Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Cockcrofts witness final removal of Windscale galleries
As the final removal of the iconic filters at the top of the remaining Windscale chimney draws to a close, the son and grandson of John Cockroft, at whose insistence the filters were built, have taken part in the work.
Waste & Recycling
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Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Changing face of Magnox decommissioning
The UK's shut down Bradwell nuclear power plant is sporting a new look as cladding work progresses in preparation for care and maintenance. Meanwhile, UK construction and engineering group Costain plans to develop novel ways to treat irradiated graphite from decommissioned reactors.
Waste & Recycling
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Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Innovative way to plug tubes at BEPO
A novel technique using expanding polyurethane foam has been used to prevent radioactive materials escaping from storage tubes at the British Experimental Pile Zero (BEPO) at Harwell, which is being decommissioned.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 10 November 2014
Mission to remove used fuel complete at Fukushima
A year-long operation to remove all the used fuel assemblies from the storage pool at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 has been successfully completed. Some fresh fuel remains in the pool, but this should be removed by the end of the year.
Regulation & Safety
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Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Chernobyl projects make progress
Construction of the central used fuel storage facility has started at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Waste & Recycling
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Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Cover dismantlement starts at unit 1
Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun removing the panels of the temporary cover over the damaged reactor building of unit 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Regulation & Safety
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Friday, 31 October 2014
Lepse service ship in dry dock
Rosatom said today that the
Lepse
nuclear service ship had been put into dry dock at the Nerpa Shipyard on the Kola Peninsula. The process took six days.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Hanford reactor unsealed for inspection
Workers have entered the cocooned former plutonium-producing F Reactor at the Hanford site in the USA for the first time in six years to conduct a scheduled inspection.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 23 October 2014
Paducah deactivation begins
Work to deactivate the former Paducah gaseous diffusion enrichment plant can begin in earnest after Centrus Energy subsidiary United States Enrichment Corporation formally handed back full control of the Kentucky complex to the US Department of Energy (DoE).
Uranium & Fuel
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Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Tepco boosts water decontamination capacities
Testing of a new high-performance water decontamination system has started at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. When in full operation, the new system should increase water treatment capacity while significantly reducing the volume of waste generated.
Regulation & Safety
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Oldbury defuelling reaches halfway point
Over half the 52,060 used nuclear fuel elements at the former Magnox nuclear power plant at Oldbury in the UK have now been removed from site, two and a half years after the plant generated its last power.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 17 October 2014
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