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Fuel transfer trolley installed at Finnish encapsulation plant
16 February, 2024
The transfer trolley for moving used fuel transport casks has been...
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NTS to carry out feasibility studies on fuel transport
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 by Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS), part of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), has been commissioned by UK nuclear start-up newcleo to carry out feasibility studies...

IAEA and ICAO strengthen cooperation on transport of radioactive materials
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 by The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have agreed to enhance cooperation on the transport of radioactive materials by...

Rosatom develops transport container for used steam generators
Friday, October 20, 2023 by The Central Design & Technological Institute (JSC CPTI, part of Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL) has designed and manufactured a container to transport steam generators from...

Final testing of new US railcar for used fuel transport
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 by The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently completed a 1,600-mile round-trip journey from Colorado to Idaho as final testing of the specialised Atlas railcar designed to safely...

Steam generators destined for Kudankulam NPP stranded at sea on damaged barge
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by The barge vital carrying two steam generators for units 5&6 of India’s Kudankulam NPP is stuck on a rock close to the plant’s purpose built jetty. The ongoing operation to rescue...

Orano and Urenco to develop 30B-X cylinder HALEU fuel transport
Friday, September 08, 2023 by France nuclear fuel company Orano and Europe-based uranium enrichment company Urenco have signed a consortium agreement to test and develop the new 30B-X cylinder designed to...

Studies investigate potential of nuclear shipping
Thursday, July 27, 2023 by The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has commissioned US-based Herbert Engineering Corp (HEC) to investigate the potential of advanced modern reactor technology for commercial...

Canadian drones approved for dangerous goods transportation
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 by Drone Delivery Canada Corp (DDC) has received approval from Transport Canada for Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) flights in tandem with the transportation of dangerous goods for...

UK nuclear shipping may go green
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 by The UK’s Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS), part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), is collaborating with renewable marine technology specialist Smart Green Shipping (SGS)...

Tests completed on transport container for Hualong One fresh fuel
Wednesday, October 05, 2022 by The CNFC-HL01 Hualong One fresh fuel transport container prototype independently developed by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has completed a series of verification tests...

Gemini containers used to ship waste to Sellafield
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by The first UK shipment of legacy waste drums from Magnox Harwell to Sellafield has been completed using the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA’s) Type B Gemini container...

China’s CIMC ENRIC wins record export order from Europe for nuclear fuel transport containers
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by China’s CIMC Enric Holdings Ltd announced that its subsidiary, Nantong CIMC Energy Equipment Co Ltd, has won an order for 3,000 storage and transport containers for uranium...

Milestone for UK waste project
Thursday, March 31, 2022 by A major project to dispose of more than 1000 stainless steel drums of waste from the Winfrith Magnox site at Nuclear Waste Services’ Low Level Waste Repository site in the...

Intermediate-level waste repatriated to Australia
Thursday, March 17, 2022 by A consignment of intermediate-level waste (ILW) was delivered to the interim waste store at the he Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO’s) Lucas...

Framatome receives US NRC approval to transport higher enriched fuel
Monday, February 28, 2022 by France’s Framatome said it has achieved a significant milestone for the delivery of nuclear fuel at higher enrichment and burnup levels.

India orders transport casks from Holtec for Kudankulam
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 by US-based Holtec International announced that its India based subsidiary in Pune, Holtec Asia, had received an order for two transport casks from Nuclear Power Corporation of India...

Kansai Electric returns unused fuel to UK
Monday, January 24, 2022 by Kansai Electric Power Company has returned 40 unused fuel assemblies from unit 2 of its Mihama nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukui Prefecture to the Westinghouse Springfields...

US tests new railcar for used fuel and radwaste transport
Thursday, January 13, 2022 by The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy (ONE) said on 11 January that a new high-tech railcar developed by the US Navy and DOE) was en route from Oregon to a...

Canada’s NWMO releases transportation plans
Monday, January 10, 2022 by Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) in early January released two planning documents that, it said, “address the wide range of priorities, questions and concerns...

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