The decommissioning process for the Fukushima Daiichi site and surroundings is scheduled to be completed by 2051. It will require many innovations, and careful planning. Here are some of the details outlined at an event at the International Atomic 抖阴传媒在线 Agency's General Conference in Vienna.
Tokyo-based IT company Muroosystems Corporation has completed its acquisition of Germany's Nukem Technologies Engineering Services GmbH, which specialises in decommissioning, waste management and engineering services.
German utility RWE has been granted a permit by the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, 抖阴传媒在线 and Climate Protection for the decommissioning and dismantling of the Emsland nuclear power plant.
The Oxford Robotics Institute autonomy platform controlled a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot to inspect the UK Atomic 抖阴传媒在线 Authority's Joint European Torus (JET) facility for more than a month.
A new snake-like inspection robot has been trialed at the Dounreay site in Scotland, UK, to survey confined spaces.
The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation has approved EDF 抖阴传媒在线's application to start decommissioning the Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland. This decision comes after a public consultation and a detailed assessment by ONR specialist inspectors of EDF 抖阴传媒在线's environmental statement.
The defueling of the first of two advanced gas-cooled reactors at the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, the UK, has been completed.
Rosatom has said that its work to resolve nuclear legacy issues in Russia's Far East has been successful, including the dismantling of dozens of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines.
The completion of soil remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park is the culmination of 20 years of cleanup at the site which was once home to Manhattan Project and Cold War-era uranium enrichment facilities. The remaining federally owned parcels of land at the site can now be transferred to the community.
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