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The Dalton Nuclear Institute: A winning collaboration between industry and academia
03 April, 2024
The Dalton Nuclear Institute is a longstanding UK partnership between industry and academia focussed on decommissioning. Its director Francis Livens talks to NEI about why it works.

Springfields: what next?
07 May, 2020
Westinghouse has unveiled plans for a Clean Energy Technology Park at its UK’s fuel manufacturing site. Penny Hitchin reports.

Waste not, want not
18 December, 2018
The UK’s ability to dispose of Sealed Radioactive Source waste has been something of a concern for many years now. But as Andrew Tunnicliffe finds out, INS has been working on an innovative, albeit challenging, solution.

A vision for fission
10 May, 2018
Paul Howarth, CEO of the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory, looks back at the last decade of innovation at NNL, and how its focus is now shifting to advanced technology such as small modular reactors.

A decommissioning revolution
21 February, 2018
William Roberts reflects on how attitudes towards decommissioning have evolved over the past 30 years.

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.

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.

Germany revises waste disposal programme
04 November, 2015
Judith Perera gives an overview of Germany’s new radioactive waste disposal plans, which were submitted to the European Commission in August.

Conversion - Optimism despite tough times
08 October, 2015
Uranium converters are facing a depressed market with surplus uranium and low spot prices. Times are tough for a business that has never been the most profitable part of the nuclear fuel cycle but optimism remains. By Steve Kidd

Diversification of the VVER fuel market
30 September, 2015
Mark Dye, Jan Höglund, and Ulf Benjaminsson give an overview of Westinghouse’s 15-year nuclear fuel development programme at South Ukraine, along with its plans to re-enter the VVER-440 fuel market with a new design.

MOX rig decommissioning: a towering achievement
12 April, 2015
Cleanup of a MOX rig will support decommissioning of the Sellafield MOX Plant. By David Checkley and Kieron Ryding

Supply margins erode
06 October, 2011
Long-term and spot prices for conversion services remain on a rising trend. Production interruptions highlight the risk posed by thin supply margins. By Michael Schwartz and Julian Steyn

A history of the UK's IP-2 ISO freight containers
13 September, 2011
The most common container for low-level waste in the UK were based on ISO containers 25 years ago. The history and development of IP-2 ISO freight containers are reviewed. By Bob Vaughan and Ron Hows

Old meets new
13 September, 2011
Decommissioning of a 60-year-old pile fuel cladding silo at Sellafield requires the construction of modular steel packaging and retrieval cells, which will be bolted on to the old structure. By Penny Hitchin

NE Atlantic discharges
15 August, 2011
European countries signed up to the OSPAR Convention are committed to achieve ‘good environmental status’ of the Atlantic Ocean. This includes reducing radioactive discharges to levels where the additional concentrations above historic levels are close to zero by 2020. The most recent report finds the nuclear industry making progress, but improvements are still required. By Penny Hitchin

Yangjiang’s safety net
24 August, 2010
EnergySolutions has won a contract to replace the standard CPR-1000 evaporative system at Yangjiang NPP with a wastewater treatment plant design that it has refined through long experience in the USA. By Tim Milner

From profession to professor
02 July, 2010
After working in the UK nuclear regulator for 29 years, Laurence Williams has become the UK’s first professor of nuclear safety at the University of Central Lancashire. The post reflects today’s appreciation of safety in the nuclear industry, values that Williams himself has helped instill over his career. Back when he started, it was a different story, he tells Will Dalrymple.

Enough for today
03 November, 2009
The current margin of available conversion supply may not be adequate to overcome another extended disruption at any of the converters. By Julian Steyn

Diffusion defused
10 August, 2009
A project to decommission a major European uranium enrichment facility near Sellafield, UK, wound down in 2008 after 25 years of work. By Ian Mason

PBMR: hot or not?
01 April, 2009
On 5 February PBMR (Pty) announced that it was planning to look beyond electricity generation for its pebble bed reactor (see statement). Could this be the beginning of the end of the South African PBMR project? By Steve Thomas