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Cumbrian community exits repository site search

Cumbrian community exits repository site search

Allerdale - one of four locations being evaluated - has been removed from the UK geological disposal facility siting process due to limited suitable geology, Nuclear Waste Services announced. It is expected that a final site selection could be a process which takes 10-15 years.

Waste & Recycling 28 September 2023

Completion of Finnish repository review delayed

Completion of Finnish repository review delayed

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority said its review of Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used fuel disposal facility is taking longer than expected and will not be completed by the end of this year as planned.

Waste & Recycling 28 September 2023

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Robot navigates Dounreay evaporator cell

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Fuel removed from first Hunterston B reactor

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Milestone in restoration of Zorita plant site

Court annuls licence for Texas used fuel store

Defuelling completed at Mühleberg

Milestone in restoration of Zorita plant site

Milestone in restoration of Zorita plant site

Work to fill in the hole left following the demolition of the containment building of the José Cabrera nuclear power plant has been completed, Spanish decommissioning and waste management firm Enresa announced. The plant - also known as Zorita - is the first to be fully dismantled in Spain.

Waste & Recycling 22 September 2023

Fuel removed from first Hunterston B reactor

Fuel removed from first Hunterston B reactor

The defueling of the first of two reactors at the Hunterston B advanced gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant in the UK has been completed on time and on budget, EDF Energy announced.

Waste & Recycling 21 September 2023

Joint UK-Japanese research on waste and decommissioning

Joint UK-Japanese research on waste and decommissioning

Two research projects are to receive funding totalling GBP1 million (USD1.2 million) from UK and Japanese research councils to develop technologies to detect and process radioactive waste. The research will support work to decommission the UK's Sellafield plant and remove radioactive debris from the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan.

Waste & Recycling 12 September 2023

Robot navigates Dounreay evaporator cell

Robot navigates Dounreay evaporator cell

Spot, a robotic quadruped, has completed a trial at the Dounreay site in Scotland, UK, where it successfully navigated an evaporator cell in the Fuel Cycle Area that has been shut off for 25 years.

Waste & Recycling 05 September 2023

What to do with the UK's civil plutonium?

What to do with the UK's civil plutonium?

The UK's 140-tonne stockpile of civil plutonium could be used as fuel for thermal reactors or combined with the country's 100,000-tonne supply of depleted, natural and low-enriched uranium to fuel new fast reactors - or disposed of as waste in a future geological disposal facility - says a new report from The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute exploring the options.

Waste & Recycling 05 September 2023

Studsvik, GNS collaborate on waste technology

Studsvik, GNS collaborate on waste technology

Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik and German radioactive waste specialist GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH have formed a strategic and exclusive cooperation to implement Studsvik's inDRUM technology for the German market. inDRUM is a patented technology for the treatment of problematic wastes, such as legacy wastes in aging drums.

Waste & Recycling 04 September 2023

Defuelling completed at Mühleberg

Defuelling completed at Mühleberg

All the nuclear fuel at the shut down Mühleberg nuclear power plant has now been transported to the Zwilag interim storage facility in Würenlingen, Swiss utility BKW announced. The removal of the fuel marks the completion of the first of three stages of decommissioning of the plant.

Waste & Recycling 01 September 2023

Court annuls licence for Texas used fuel store

Court annuls licence for Texas used fuel store

The licence issued for the construction and operation of a consolidated interim storage facility for used nuclear fuel in Texas has been cancelled by a US appeals court. The court ruled that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not have the authority to license a private storage facility away from nuclear reactors.

Waste & Recycling 30 August 2023