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Chimney work changes Sellafield skyline
Chimney work changes Sellafield skyline
Windscale_pile_chimney_April_2014_(Sellafield)_48Work to decommission the iconic filter gallery on the last remaining chimney from the UK's historic Windscale reactors has reached the half-way point.
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 17 April 2014
CB&I to decommission floating reactor
CB&I to decommission floating reactor
Sturgis_at_James_River_(Bloodgood_US ACE)_48The USA's only floating nuclear power plant will be decommissioned by CB&I under a $34.7 million contract. The MH-1A reactor provided power to the Panama Canal zone before being shut down in 1976.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 14 April 2014
Contractor sought to remove historic reactor core
Contractor sought to remove historic reactor core
SGHWR_(RSRL)_48Research Sites Restoration Ltd听is looking for bidders for a 拢40-60 million ($66-100 million) project to design, test and build the specialist equipment to remove the core from the UK's prototype steam generating heavy water reactor.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 7 April 2014
First half of Chernobyl cover on the move
First half of Chernobyl cover on the move
Chernobyl arch movement 48The first half of the Chernobyl arch has been assembled. It is now being gradually moved to make way for construction of the other half.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Cavendish Fluor wins UK decommissioning contract
Cavendish Fluor wins UK decommissioning contract
Winfirth_B72_demolition_Feb_2014_(RSRL)_48A joint venture between Cavendish Nuclear and Fluor Corporation has been selected to handle the 拢7 billion decommissioning of the UK's Magnox power plants as well as several nuclear research facilities.
Corporate · Monday, 31 March 2014
Nuclear tax robs seven months from German plant
Nuclear tax robs seven months from German plant
The Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant will close seven months early, said EOn, claiming the government tax on nuclear fuel makes its final period of operation uneconomic.
Corporate · Friday, 28 March 2014
Progress in Sellafield pond clearance
Progress in Sellafield pond clearance
PFSP metal removal 48The first 100 tonnes of contaminated equipment that has laid for decades in the Pile Fuel Storage Pond听at the Sellafield site in the UK has been retrieved for final disposal.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 7 March 2014
Decommissioning of Chernobyl units approaches
Decommissioning of Chernobyl units approaches
Chernobyl panoramic 48Work could soon start on decommissioning units 1 to 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after a project to put the units into care and maintenance was approved by a state听review authority.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Licence revoked for heavy water plant site
Licence revoked for heavy water plant site
Bruce Heavy Water Plant 48Canadian regulators have agreed to issue a "licence to abandon" the Bruce Heavy Water Plant, formally marking the completion of decommissioning at the site on the shore of Lake Huron.
Regulation & Safety · Monday, 17 February 2014
Tenders for Russian submarine fuel removal
Tenders for Russian submarine fuel removal
Suppliers are being sought by Russia for equipment to handle and transport used nuclear submarine fuel currently stored at Andreeva Bay. Such fuel has been stored at the site for over 50 years.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 7 February 2014
Ideas for debris removal at Fukushima
Ideas for debris removal at Fukushima
Scheme of Fukushima debris removal, February 2014 (Tepco) 71x48Japan has received around 200 international suggestions on concepts to remove the remains of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor cores.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 7 February 2014
Debris clearance at Fukushima
Debris clearance at Fukushima
Fukushima Daiichi debris clearance 48A series of photographs showing progress in the removal of tsunami debris from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant has been released by Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Regulation & Safety · Thursday, 30 January 2014
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