The installation of steel columnsÌýnext to Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 marks the start of construction on a cover that will aid in the removal of fuel. This is the second cover to get underway at the site.
Ìý
Private equity firm ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Capital Partners is set to buy nuclear commercial services company ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏßSolutions in a deal that values the firm at $1.1 billion.
%2048.jpg "Garona - Foronuclear 48")
The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has today completed the transfer ofÌýits Capenhurst site to Urenco subsidiary Capenhurst Nuclear Services.
Assembly of the giantÌýstructure that will protect the ruined Chernobyl unit 4 and enable its dismantling has reached a milestone with theÌýraising of the first arch.
Plans for the construction of a protective cover over the damaged reactor building of Fukushima Daiichi unit 3 have been announced by Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Swedish decommissioning company Studsvik has won a £15 million ($24 million) contract to remove and treat the final heat exchangers remaining at the UK's shut-down Berkeley nuclear power plant.
The Kewaunee nuclear power plant in Wisconsin will close by mid-2013 and will then be decommissioned, Dominion announced after failing to find a buyer for the plant.
Sellafield Ltd has announced a joint venture of multidisciplinary construction and engineering companies Morgan Sindall and Arup as its preferred partner to provide a range of infrastructure services to the site under a contract worth a potential £1.1 billion (€1.4 billion).
Decommissioning of the nuclear island of the Trino Vercellese nuclear power plant in Italy is now under way. The work is expected to take twelve years to complete at a total cost of €234 million ($303 million).
A large area of one of the UK's legacy nuclear sites will become available for redevelopment after regulators approved the removal of over ten hectares of land from the Winfrith nuclear site licence after decommissioning work.