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TPU project to use electric discharge to decontaminate concreteTomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and TVEL have launched a project to use electric discharges to speed up the decontamination of radioactive concrete. The aim is to allow decontamination of… |
US, UK, Canada and France collaborate on nuclear legacy sitesThe USA's Department of Energy (DoE), the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and… |
UK grant for Deep Isolation corrosion-resistant canistersThe project is a collaboration between Deep Isolation, the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, the University of Sheffield and NAC International and aims to engineer canisters that… |
Application lodged for construction of French repositoryFrench radioactive waste management agency Andra has applied for a construction licence (DAC) for the planned Centre Industriel de Stockage Géologique (Cigéo) deep geological disposal facility for… |
Transfer of waste from Berkeley vaults beginsThe first concrete box containing radioactive waste from underground vaults at the shut down Berkeley nuclear power plant in the UK has been transferred to an interim on-site storage facility,… |
Planning consent granted for General Fusion demo plantConstruction of General Fusion's Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA's) Culham Campus near Oxford, England, is expected to start later this year following… |
UK Demonstration of Borehole Sealing TechnologyExisting boreholes at the Rosemanowes quarry in Cornwall, southwest England, have been successfully sealed by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) in a demonstration of the technology it plans to use to… |
Finland Might Have Solved Nuclear Power’s Biggest ProblemFinland is building the largest and most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe - and may have worked out what to do with spent nuclear fuel once and for all. … |
Types of rock in which radioactive waste could be disposed ofShort video outlining the types of rock that are being considered as suitable to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) … |
Cumbrian development company chooses Rolls-Royce SMRNewly-established development firm Solway Community Power Company has selected the Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) for deployment in West Cumbria, England. Earlier this week, it was… |
KBR to support UK repository developmentUSA-headquartered KBR has been awarded a contract to support the UK's Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) in developing a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). Such a facility, NWS says, will create more… |
Nuclear waste removal project commences at UK's most hazardous buildingSky News was given exclusive access to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, including to the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, which has been described as the most hazardous building in Western Europe… |
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