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Cavendish Fluor takes over UK nuclear sites
Cavendish Fluor Partnership has been formally awarded the contract by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to manage 12 UK nuclear sites and their respective decommissioning programs.
Corporate
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Monday, 1 September 2014
Final solution for historic used fuel
All of the used nuclear fuel from a historic US experimental reactor that ceased operations half a century ago has been dissolved in an equally historic chemical processing plant, completing a major step towards final disposition of the material.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 29 August 2014
Defueling completed at Sizewell A
The final shipment of used fuel from the UK's Sizewell A nuclear power plant has been sent for reprocessing at Sellafield, marking the end of a five-year operation to remove all fuel from the site.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 29 August 2014
Final voyage for Atlantic Osprey
After years of transporting materials to facilitate nuclear recycling, UK-registered nuclear cargo vessel
Atlantic Osprey
has begun its final voyage to the Swansea dock where it is itself destined to be broken up and recycled.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 22 August 2014
Harwell test facility prepares for decommissioning
Operations have ended at a post-irradiation examination facility at the UK's Harwell nuclear research site. Decommissioning activities will begin in about three years.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 7 August 2014
Ignalina 2 decommissioning work starts
Work has started at the second unit of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania to dismantle its emergency core cooling system and to remove contaminated components from its turbine hall. The two projects are to be completed in June 2015 and by 2029, respectively.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 24 July 2014
Nuclenor fined for early Garoña closure
The operator of Spain's Garoña nuclear power plant, Nuclenor, has been fined €18.4 million ($24.9 million) by the country's financial regulator for shutting down the plant six months earlier than originally authorized.
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Friday, 18 July 2014
Areva to dismantle Swedish research reactors
Two reactors used for early nuclear energy research in Sweden are to be dismantled by Areva. Work to completely dismantle the R2 and R2-0 reactors and associated systems is due to be finished within five years.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Putin changes status of eight Rosatom entities with weapons know-how
The Russian government is firming up separation of the country's military and civilian nuclear assets with a change to the legal status of certain Rosatom subsidiaries.
Corporate
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Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Sellafield takes long view on suppliers
Sellafield Ltd is putting in place a new kind of long-term commercial mechanism to secure specialist decommissioning services over a ten-year period. The work could be worth up to £1.5 billion ($2.6 billion).
Corporate
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Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Swedish utilities face sharp hike in waste fee
Sweden's nuclear regulator proposes to almost double the fees paid by utilities in 2015 into the country's nuclear waste fund. The increase follows a recalculation of decommissioning and waste disposal costs.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 27 June 2014
Winfrith opens reactor containment for first time
The removal of a 50-tonne concrete and steel plug has allowed access to the containment of the UK's prototype steam generating heavy water reactor (SGHWR) for the first time since it was built in the 1960s.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 26 June 2014
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All of the used nuclear fuel from a historic US experimental reactor that ceased operations half a century ago has been dissolved in an equally historic chemical processing plant, completing a major step towards final disposition of the material.
Operations have ended at a post-irradiation examination facility at the UK's Harwell nuclear research site. Decommissioning activities will begin in about three years._65x48.jpg "Garona (Nuclenor) 65x48")
The operator of Spain's Garoña nuclear power plant, Nuclenor, has been fined €18.4 million ($24.9 million) by the country's financial regulator for shutting down the plant six months earlier than originally authorized.
Two reactors used for early nuclear energy research in Sweden are to be dismantled by Areva. Work to completely dismantle the R2 and R2-0 reactors and associated systems is due to be finished within five years.
Sellafield Ltd is putting in place a new kind of long-term commercial mechanism to secure specialist decommissioning services over a ten-year period. The work could be worth up to £1.5 billion ($2.6 billion).
The removal of a 50-tonne concrete and steel plug has allowed access to the containment of the UK's prototype steam generating heavy water reactor (SGHWR) for the first time since it was built in the 1960s.