Posted by NucNet on 30 April 2015 in Issues
An uncertain future Our last nuclear power station, Sizewell B began operating in 1966 ; it is possible if EDF plans go ahead, that the next may start operating by the mid 2020s, a gap of over 50 years. We can of course upgrade and extend the lives ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 23 April 2015 in WNN
Miniature submarines are being used to recover cobalt cartridges dating back to the 1950s from storage ponds at the UK’s Sellafield site. The cartridges were used for producing isotopes for medical and industrial applications. Sellafield Ltd estimates there are some 800 cobalt cartridges being stored in Sellafield’s Pile ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 22 April 2015 in WNN
A court had ruled against a petition opposed to the restart of units 1 and 2 of the Sendai nuclear power plant in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture. The units now look set to resume operation later this year, becoming the first of the country’s reactors to be restarted since the ...
Posted by NucNet on 21 April 2015 in NucNet
A £3.5 million (€4.8m, $5.2m) grant by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the UK’s main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical sciences, will enable the construction of an advanced new facility at the University of Huddersfield in northern England for the analysis of ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 16 April 2015 in WNN
Amec Foster Wheeler said today that it will provide an extensive range of nuclear services in decommissioning, waste management and site characterization across the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s nuclear sites. The contract – the value of which has not been disclosed – includes services to support a geological ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 15 April 2015 in WNN
NuGen has announced that a ten-week public consultation on its proposed Moorside project near Sellafield in Cumbria, UK, will begin on 16 May. The company – a 60%/40% joint venture between Toshiba and GDF Suez – plans to build three Westinghouse AP1000 pressurized water reactors at Moorside by ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 9 April 2015 in WNN
EDF Energy says it has almost completed early site preparation works for the planned Hinkley Point C project. However, pending a final investment decision (FID), some 400 jobs at the site are at risk. In a 1 April statement, EDF Energy said it has carried out extensive work with ...
Posted by NucNet on 3 April 2015 in NucNet
Plans & Construction Russia has transferred 57.5 billion roubles (about €925 million) from its sovereign wealth fund into preferred shares of Atomenergoprom, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, for the construction of Finland’s planned nuclear power station Hanhikivi-1, the Russian ministry of finance said yesterday. In ...
Uranium & Fuel Russia is “ready to supply fresh nuclear fuel and take back spent, irradiated fuel” from Iran’s operational nuclear reactor at Bushehr and any future reactors built with Russian participation, Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said. “We are ready to do so throughout the life ...
Plans & Construction 3 Apr (NucNet): The fourth and last steam generator for Russia’s Leningrad 2-2 nuclear unit under construction at Sosnovy Bor, west of St. Petersburg, has been shipped by manufacturer ZIO-Podolsk, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. The 430-tonne steam generator was ready 21 days ahead ...
Policies & Politics Japan’s government plans to have 20 percent of the country’s electricity generated from nuclear energy by 2030, local media have reported. A panel set up by prime minister Shinzo Abe’s governing Liberal Democratic Party approved a proposal behind closed doors yesterday that would increase stable ...
Plans & Construction EDF Energy, the UK subsidiary of France’s EDF, will reduce the number of staff at the Hinkley Point C nuclear station site in Somerset from 650 to 250 after having completed the preparatory work and awaiting a final investment decision, the company said. “EDF Energy ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 1 April 2015 in WNN
Russia’s national operator for radioactive waste management (NO RAO) has completed the design documents for an underground research laboratory to study the feasibility of final disposal of solid high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and solid medium-level long-lived wastes in the Nizhnekansky granitoid rock massif in Zheleznogorsk.
The UK’s Magnox Limited and Research Sites Restoration Limited (RSRL) have today merged to form a single organization operating as Magnox Limited. The combined business will be responsible for 12 nuclear sites. Cavendish Fluor Partnership (CFP) – a joint venture between the UK’s Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock ...
Posiva, the Finnish waste management company, said today it has started construction of a heavy plug for the demonstration repository tunnel at its final repository and waste encapsulation plant at Olkiluoto. The underground characterisation facility is known as Onkalo. The plug is required because a deposition tunnel must ...
