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Goodbye to BNFL
09 August, 2016
The UK government, as part of a major reduction of public bodies, has decided to finally abolish British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL). The company, which was launched in 1971, grew to manage the UK's nuclear fuel cycle centres and all 26 Magnox nuclear power reactors. It established a US-based decommissioning division in 1990, bought the reactor vendor Westinghouse in 1999, and in 2000 bought the nuclear business of ABB and integrated it into Westinghouse. In its own words, BNFL was "a highly influential and respected nuclear company with operations across the UK and overseas”.

Rise to the challenge
07 July, 2016
A decommissioning project of a reactor built five decades ago at Winfrith will be technically challenging. NEI looks at the project, it’s challenges and what the award might mean for the winner, James Fisher Nuclear.

Toshiba ends agreements with US CB&I
18 May, 2016
Japan’s Toshiba and US CB&I have agreed to terminate agreements signed in 2010 between Toshiba and Shaw Group related to construction of two Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWRs) at the South Texas Project (STP). Shaw was subsequently acquired by CB&I, which later sold the reactor construction business to Westinghouse, which is part of Toshiba. Earlier in 2008, Toshiba and US utility NRG Energy set up Nuclear Innovation North America (NINA), and applied for a combined construction and operation licence through the STP Nuclear Operating Company, which was granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in February. NINA owns over 92% of the STP newbuild project, and Toshiba has bankrolled the licensing process since NRG withdrew from the project in 2011.

Is small beautiful?
10 May, 2016
Today, as technology evolves, we are forever being presented with familiar things, just a lot smaller. The mobile phone has shrunk markedly since the very early models. But are we on the cusp of a revolution in the nuclear industry as small modular reactor development gains pace? Penny Hitchin reports.