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Court orders halt to nuclear waste fees
Court orders halt to nuclear waste fees
A US Court of Appeal has ruled that the Department of 抖阴传媒在线听must stop collecting nuclear waste fees from utilities until it decides how used fuel is to be disposed of.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Reviving Yucca Mountain
Reviving Yucca Mountain
The US nuclear regulator has directed its staff to complete work on the safety evaluation report听for the Yucca Mountain geologic repository. Meanwhile, a听court has awarded over $235 million of damages to three utilities affected by federal failure to fulfil used fuel disposal commitments.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Sea route safe from strontium sources
Sea route safe from strontium sources
Fourteen radioisotope thermoelectric generators, some used to power Arctic lighthouses, have been recovered from Russia's northern coastline in an international effort to secure vulnerable radioactive materials.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 15 November 2013
Dismantling of Chernobyl stack begins
Dismantling of Chernobyl stack begins
Work to dismantle the old ventilation stack shared by units 3 and 4 at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine has begun, making way听for installation of the giant protective structure over the damaged reactor.
Waste & Recycling · Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Laser gun makes the cut in decommissioning
Laser gun makes the cut in decommissioning
A hand-held laser for use in the dismantling of metallic infrastructures during the decommissioning of nuclear facilities has been developed by the UK's TWI.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 4 October 2013
Chernobyl fuel transfer milestone
Chernobyl fuel transfer milestone
The transfer of undamaged used fuel to an on-site interim storage facility from units 1 to 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has now been completed.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Special delivery for Sellafield
Special delivery for Sellafield
Engineers at Sellafield have received the largest module of the Thorp reprocessing plant's incoming Evaporator D unit - the biggest nuclear project underway in Britain.
Waste & Recycling · Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Westinghouse to dismantle Zorita vessel
Westinghouse to dismantle Zorita vessel
Westinghouse has been contracted by Spanish nuclear waste management company Enresa to dismantle the reactor pressure vessel听of the Jos茅 Cabrera (Zorita) nuclear power plant which it sold to Spain over 50 years ago.
Waste & Recycling · Friday, 13 September 2013
UK launches consultation on waste siting
UK launches consultation on waste siting
The UK government has launched a public consultation on how it will organise the process that will lead to selection of a site for a geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste.
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 12 September 2013
Demolition of Windscale chimney starts
Demolition of Windscale chimney starts
Work to demolish the 110-metre tall chimney of the first Windscale pile - scene of a fire in 1957 - has begun at the UK's Sellafield site.
Waste & Recycling · Thursday, 5 September 2013
French PWR passes decommissioning milestone
French PWR passes decommissioning milestone
French nuclear company Areva is celebrating the completion of work to remove radioactive material from major parts at the Chooz A nuclear power plant in a first of a kind project.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 2 September 2013
NRC seeks input on Yucca Mountain restart
NRC seeks input on Yucca Mountain restart
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has asked for views on how it should go about resuming the licensing process for the Yucca Mountain waste repository.
Waste & Recycling · Monday, 2 September 2013
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