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The defuelling of the first reactor at the UK’s Hunterston B NPP has...
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DOE settles dispute over Hanford site with Washington Ecology Department
The Washington State Department of Ecology (WSDE) says a settlement agreement has finally been reached with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to ensure access to critical federal...
Remediation begins at former uranium mining sites in Uzbekistan
Remediation work at legacy uranium mining sites in Uzbekistan is under way, supported by a €9m ($11m) grant from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA) – set up...
Switzerland’s Mühleberg NPP completes defuelling
Swiss energy group BKW (formerly Bernische Kraftwerke) has completed defueling of the decommissioned Mühleberg NPP (KKM Kernkraftwerk Mühleberg). The 418 used fuel elements have all...
Dismantling of mothballed Alaskan nuclear plant to resume
The decommissioning of a mothballed NPP at Fort Greely in Alaska is expected to resume after the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) resolved a contract dispute that had delayed work...
Dismantling progress at Grafenrheinfeld NPP
Germany’s Grafenrheinfeld NPP (KKG - Kernkraftwerk Grafenrheinfeld) has completed cleaning and emptying work on the fuel assembly basin achieving a dismantling milestone known as...
Orano completes initial segmentation of reactor vessel at Crystal River 3
Orano Decommissioning Services recently completed the first cut to separate and then package the top third of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) with its embedded internal components...
Defuelling completed at Leningrad 1&2
A key stage in preparation for the decommissioning of units 1&2 at Russia’s Leningrad NPP has been completed with removal of the last fuel assembly (FA) from unit 2 RBMK-1000...
Xcel Energy to build underground barrier to contain radioactive water leak at Monticello NPP
US power utility Xcel Energy has announced that it will build an underground metal barrier at the Monticello NPP in Minnesota to contain a leak of water containing tritium and prevent...
Rosatom develops foam decontamination technology for radioactive facilities
Researchers at Russia’s AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM - part of TVEL) have completed R&D on the development of an integrated technology for...
Gorleben salt mine to be dismantled and backfilled
Germany’s Federal Association for Final Storage (BGE - Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung) has awarded a contract to dismantle the Gorleben mine and to backfill it using the...
Melter begins operation at US Hanford Site
The US Hanford Site Waste Treatment & Immobilisation Plant (WTP) team has poured the first batches of glass forming beads, called frit, into a melter which recently achieved its...
Drones working on Sellafield decommissioning
Drone pilots have successfully completed two flight firsts on a UK nuclear site. Deploying the Elios 3 drone equipped with a LiDAR sensor, the drone enabled Sellafield Ltd to achieve...
Veolia Nuclear Solutions wins DoE Ohio cleanup contract
Veolia’s U.S. nuclear clean up arm has won a contract with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management to clean up the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site...
Approval granted for dismantling Spain’s Garoña NPP
Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition & Demographic Challenge (Miteco - Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico) has authorised the start of the...
DOE awards Portsmouth decommissioning contract
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded the Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract (PORTS D&D) to Southern Ohio...
Deep Isolation to investigate borehole disposal for Krško used fuel
US-based Deep Isolation EMEA has been contracted by Slovenia’s Agency for Radwaste Management (ARAO) and Croatia’s fund for financing the decommissioning of the Krško NPP (Fond-NEK),...
Leningrad NPP to be pilot site for RBMK decommissioning
A public consultation is under way with respect to the decommissioning of the RBMK units at units 1&2 of Russia’s Leningrad NPP. The two units ceased operation in 2018 and 2020 after...
Holtec’s HI-LIFT speeds up decommissioning at Indian Point
US-based Holtec International is using its HI-LIFT heavy load handling technology to speed up decommissioning work at unit 3 of the US Indian Point NPP in Buchanan, New York State.
Russia’s uranium-graphite ADE-2 reactor to become museum exhibit
At Russia’s Mining & Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk) the decommissioning of two legacy industrial uranium-graphite reactors, AD and ADE-1, is nearing...
