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Magnox BEPO reactor 75th AnniversaryThe British Experimental Pile Operation (BEPO) reactor at Magnox’s Harwell Site began operating on Saturday 3 July 1948 when the men’s Wimbledon singles final was being played. Rationing was still… |
Studies to assess potential site suitability for GDF underwayNuclear Waste Services (NWS) has begun a wide range of studies to evaluate sites that could be suitable to host a GDF. The studies will be conducted over a number of years to help ensure a… |
Jennifer is a ‘top 50’ international engineer at SellafieldJennifer Maher has been named as one of the top 50 women in engineering Sellafield engineers, Jennifer Maher and Jennifer Humphries have extra reasons to celebrate this Women in Engineering… |
Innovative nuclear site monitoring and inspection technologies showcased at demo dayDASA and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) hosted a demo day to showcase the progress of 10 projects funded through the Remote Monitoring of Sensitive Sites competition. On 14 June… |
Magnox awards major decommissioning and asbestos removal contractFive suppliers have been awarded a framework contract to meet the needs of the Magnox decommissioning programme across the UK with an estimated value of £485m. Costain Ltd, Keltbray Holdings… |
Project examines retrofitting sails to nuclear transport shipsNuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) - part of the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - has partnered with renewable marine technology specialist Smart Green Shipping (SGS) to investigate the… |
Berkeley decommissioning work brought forward 50 yearsFive decades earlier than planned, Magnox is embarking on the decommissioning project to clean-up and demolish the four 'blower house' structures which surround the two reactor buildings at the… |
Behind the scenes site tour of Hinkley Point C 2023Hinkley Point C’s Delivery Director, Nigel Cann has released his latest 2023 update on the project. The footage shows how work has progressed over the last 12 months, with the site moving… |
A Long Term Solution to Nuclear WasteA short film that describes our mission to find a suitable site in a willing community for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). Prof Claire Corkhill, an independent Nuclear Waste Expert from… |
UK launches Nuclear Waste Services strategyThe Nuclear Waste Services strategy for the UK aims to "make nuclear waste permanently safe, sooner". The strategy sets out key dates, such as capping starting on the Low Level Waste… |
Sellafield AI strategy 'to boost safety and speed up site remediation'The UK's Sellafield nuclear facility has unveiled its AI (artificial intelligence) strategy intended to improve efficiency and safety, with the goal that by 2032 "AI will be driving safer, faster… |
TPU project to use electric discharge to decontaminate concreteTomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and TVEL have launched a project to use electric discharges to speed up the decontamination of radioactive concrete. The aim is to allow decontamination of… |
US, UK, Canada and France collaborate on nuclear legacy sitesThe USA's Department of Energy (DoE), the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and… |
UK grant for Deep Isolation corrosion-resistant canistersThe project is a collaboration between Deep Isolation, the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, the University of Sheffield and NAC International and aims to engineer canisters that… |
Application lodged for construction of French repositoryFrench radioactive waste management agency Andra has applied for a construction licence (DAC) for the planned Centre Industriel de Stockage Géologique (Cigéo) deep geological disposal facility for… |
Transfer of waste from Berkeley vaults beginsThe first concrete box containing radioactive waste from underground vaults at the shut down Berkeley nuclear power plant in the UK has been transferred to an interim on-site storage facility,… |
Planning consent granted for General Fusion demo plantConstruction of General Fusion's Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA's) Culham Campus near Oxford, England, is expected to start later this year following… |
UK Demonstration of Borehole Sealing TechnologyExisting boreholes at the Rosemanowes quarry in Cornwall, southwest England, have been successfully sealed by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) in a demonstration of the technology it plans to use to… |
Finland Might Have Solved Nuclear Power’s Biggest ProblemFinland is building the largest and most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe - and may have worked out what to do with spent nuclear fuel once and for all. … |
Types of rock in which radioactive waste could be disposed ofShort video outlining the types of rock that are being considered as suitable to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) … |
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