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A new user-centred approach to preparing safety cases
23 December, 1999
During the mid 1990s BNFL, in consultation with the UK’s nuclear regulator, began a wide ranging review to consider how best to improve the safety cases for its non-reactor plants, particularly those at its vast Sellafield site. The result is a new type of safety case, called the Continued Operation Safety Report (COSR), which provides a novel approach to preparing and presenting a safety case designed to make it more useful to the operator as well as to demonstrate that the plant is fit to operate.

UK celebrates 40 years of regulation
23 December, 1999
The UK’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate celebrated its 40th birthday in an unusual way – by inviting stakeholders, including some of its fiercest critics, to a special anniversary conference. By allowing different interests to criticise its performance without being defensive, the NII demonstrated that it was truly there to listen.

Kansai cancels MOX burning
23 December, 1999

Framatome and Siemens to merge
23 December, 1999

WAGR core dismantling begins
30 November, 1999

BNFL starts again
30 November, 1999

Excellence in radiochemistry
30 November, 1999

Euratom opens UK laboratory
30 November, 1999

BNFL’s Russian experience
30 November, 1999

Decommissioning: a rapidly maturing market
29 October, 1999
The frenetic activity at the American Nuclear Society conference on decommissioning, decontamination and reutilisation reflects the rapid growth in demand and the emergence of new technologies in this field. by Nolan Fell

Sellafield workers safe to father children
29 October, 1999

BNFL staff falsify MOX data
30 September, 1999

Rokkasho-Mura: from plans to reality
27 August, 1999
The final destination of vitrified high level waste shipped to Japan from Europe is Rokkasho-Mura in Aomori, which has been called Japan’s “nuclear prefecture”. Besides the HLW storage facility at Rokkasho-Mura, JNFL (Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd) operates a uranium enrichment plant, low-level radioactive waste disposal centre and a vitrified high level waste storage facility, and is constructing a reprocessing plant scheduled for completion in 2003.

The potential for change in a static market
27 August, 1999
Increasing competition and rationalisation in a fuel market that shows little sign of growth is creating pressure on fuel fabricators to improve productivity.

Enrichment in a world of privatisation
27 August, 1999
The last year has been dominated by the post-privatisation restructuring of USEC, including the termination of AVLIS, and the continuing debate on what to do with surplus weapons grade material. As in the nuclear industry in general, enrichment industry consolidation is likely in future.

BNFL welcomes government indecision
30 June, 1999

Addressing the legacy
30 June, 1999
A consensus conference, an innovative attempt to involve the public in the debate on nuclear waste, took place in London in May. The results suggest the problems are not too difficult for the public to understand.

25 years on – WM99 looks to the past and the future
30 June, 1999
At this 25th “Waste Management” Conference, the past was always present. The Hanford waste tank clean-up effort, for example, which was the subject of the first WM Conference, continues. As to the future, the Pangea proposal – to develop a multinational disposal facility in Australia – marks the return of the concept of regional repositories. While political concerns make it difficult for a government to accept such a plan, the arguments are so powerful that the idea will not go away.

US nuclear power - can competition give it renewed life?
28 May, 1999
The US nuclear vendor industry is in a race for its survival. By making license renewals and longer service lives financially attractive, the low operating cost of the industry’s older reactors has bought it time to reduce the capital cost of building new reactors for the US market. While the industry’s growing competitiveness may not yet make it easy to predict the ultimate survival of US nuclear power, recent developments do at least make it harder to predict an early demise.

Getting back on track
28 May, 1999
Restarting transports of spent fuel from Germany to the United Kingdom. BNFL Transport provides an industry perspective.