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Japan looks to decommission several nuclear facilities
The Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on 13 June approved the decommissioning plan the Tokai reprocessing plant.
Veolia begins work for France’s CEA
France’s Asteralis, a subsidiary of Veolia Nuclear Solutions, has been awarded three new contracts for the treatment of radioactive waste at the French Alternative Energies and...
Segmentation starts at Oskarshamn 2
Segmentation of the reactor vessel internals has begun at Sweden's Oskarshamn 2 boiling water reactor.
Swedish regulator approves dismantling of Oskarshamn 2
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) on 4 May approved OKG Aktiebolag's (OKG’s) revised safety analysis report (SAR) on segmentation of the reactor internals and fuel boxes...
Belgium approves nuclear phase-out strategy
The Belgian government on 30 March approved a new energy strategy to phase out its seven commercial nuclear power reactors between 2022 and 2025.
Robots used to investigate pipes at US DOE clean-up sites
A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU’s) Robotics Institute in the USA will be used to investigate pipes at the US Department of Energy's...
US looks to decommission Alaskan military reactor
The US Army Corps of Engineers has begun decommissioning Alaska’s only nuclear power plant, SM-1A, which is located at Fort Greely.
Decommissioning progress at Sweden’s Barsebäck
US-based Westinghouse Electric Company (recently taken over by Canada’s Brookfield) has completed dismantling the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) internals of Barsebäck 2, a 600MWe...
US research reactor seeks funds for decommissioning
Work to decommission a nuclear reactor test site owned by the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville will stop the end of this month because of a lack of funding, the...
Siempelkamp develops new chemical decontamination process
Germany’s Siempelkamp NIS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH has developed an innovative procedure for the chemical decontamination of the reactor cooling system and subsystems in nuclear...
Used fuel removal delayed Fugen
The removal of used nuclear fuel from the site of the Fugen prototype advanced converter reactor in central Japan will be postponed by nine years to fiscal 2026 as a reprocessing...
UK Public Accounts Committee criticises Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) "dramatically under-estimated" the scale and cost of decommissioning the Magnox sites, which ultimately led to the early termination of...
GNS-Westinghouse consortium wins German decommissioning contract
German utility PreussenElektra, a subsidiary of E.ON, said on 23 January that it had signed a decommissioning contract with the ZerKon consortium to dismantle and package of the...
Chernobyl confinement nears completion
Installation of the critical cranes, ventilation and control systems for the New Safe Confinement (NSC) at Chernobyl is almost finished and the structure looks set to be handed over...
Wood wins Dounreay framework
Wood, which recently acquired Amec Foster Wheeler, has won a two-year framework agreement to provide industrial services for the Dounreay nuclear site in Thurso, Scotland.
Russia opts for immediate dismantling
Russia nuclear utility Rosenergoatom has decided that moving from the "deferred" to "immediate" dismantling approach for its reactors undergoing decommissioned would bring a 20%...
Ciao to Garigliano chimney
Italy’s Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA (Sogin) on 14 November completed a €10m ($11.8m) project to dismantle the 95-metre-high central chimney at the shutdown Garigliano...
Sellafield brings down chimney
Sellafield has started demolishing the 61 metre-high chimney on top of the site’s 60-year old First Generation Reprocessing Plant, after four years of preparatory work.
Nuvia to dismantle Dragon
UK nuclear engineering, project management and services contractor Nuvia has won a contract from Magnox in support of the Dragon Reactor Decommissioning Project at Winfrith in Dorset.
