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North Wind to prepare San Onofre used fuel transfer strategy

North Wind to prepare San Onofre used fuel transfer strategy

Consultancy company North Wind Inc is to develop a strategic plan that will assess the feasibility of relocating used nuclear fuel at the San Onofre nuclear plant to a "commercially reasonable, off-site facility" under a contract awarded by Southern California Edison.

Waste & Recycling 14 June 2019

US DOE breaks ground for mega disposal units

US DOE breaks ground for mega disposal units

Work has begun on two large-scale permanent storage units for decontaminated waste material at the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, where one of the so-called "mega units" is already in operation and another is under construction.

Waste & Recycling 14 June 2019

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Accelerated decommissioning for Crystal River

Chernobyl 1-3 enter decommissioning phase

Chernobyl confinement structure systems begin operation

Decommissioning of Chernobyl units approaches

Final Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion facilities demolished

Final testing of Chernobyl used fuel store

NAC dry storage system selected for Three Mile Island

Sellafield decommissioning partnerships announced 

Used fuel transfers to resume at San Onofre

UK researchers develop semi-automatic robots

UK researchers develop semi-automatic robots

Engineers at Lancaster University are developing computer systems for robots handling hazardous nuclear waste. The software will make the robots semi-autonomous - simplifying human control, which has to be done remotely due to the highly radioactive environments in which the robots operate.

Waste & Recycling 13 June 2019

NAC dry storage system selected for Three Mile Island

NAC dry storage system selected for Three Mile Island

NAC International Inc has announced it will supply its ultra-high capacity Magnastor systems for transportable dry used fuel storage at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant under a project award from Exelon Generation. The contract is the seventh for the Magnastor system.

Waste & Recycling 05 June 2019

Accelerated decommissioning for Crystal River

Accelerated decommissioning for Crystal River

US utility Duke Energy has announced plans to decommission the single-unit Crystal River nuclear power plant in Florida by 2027. Decommissioning of the plant, which was permanently shut down in 2013, had originally been expected to take an additional 50 years to complete.

Waste & Recycling 31 May 2019

Final Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion facilities demolished

Final Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion facilities demolished

Work has begun to demolish the last two buildings that once supported the gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment process at Oak Ridge in Tennessee. Buildings K-131 and K-631 are the most contaminated structures remaining on the 2,200-acre (890 hectare) site.

Waste & Recycling 23 May 2019

Used fuel transfers to resume at San Onofre

Used fuel transfers to resume at San Onofre

Fuel transfer operations at the shut down San Onofre nuclear power plant in California can resume following approval by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Such operations were suspended following an incident last August during the lowering of a used fuel canister into a storage vault.

Waste & Recycling 22 May 2019

Three Mile Island unit 1 closure confirmed

Three Mile Island unit 1 closure confirmed

Three Mile Island unit 1 will shut down by 30 September as no state-level policy solution can now be enacted in time to reverse the premature retirement of the Pennsylvania plant, Exelon Generation announced yesterday.

Corporate 09 May 2019

Sellafield decommissioning partnerships announced 

Sellafield decommissioning partnerships announced 

Sellafield Ltd has awarded four 20-year contracts which together form the new Programme and Project Partnership. The company said it will work collaboratively with the four partners - Doosan Babcock Ltd, Kellogg Brown & Root Ltd, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure and Wood plc - to deliver major projects in support of the site's 100-year decommissioning programme.

Corporate 09 May 2019

Final testing of Chernobyl used fuel store

Final testing of Chernobyl used fuel store

Final system-wide trials began yesterday of the new dry interim used fuel storage facility at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The facility is expected to be handed over to the state-owned enterprise Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the coming months.

Waste & Recycling 07 May 2019