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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...
Rosatom to build 17 VVER units and decommission 10 RBMK units by 2035
Rosatom will have to build 17 new NPP units by 2035 and decommission about 10 power units over the coming 10 years. This is a big challenge for nuclear scientists, Rosatom...
Rosatom to develop decommissioning plan for Belarus NPP
Russian fuel company TVEL has signed an agreement with the Belarus NPP on scientific and technical support for NPP decommissioning. TVEL is responsible within Rosatom for...
Innovative nuclear sludge retrieval technique trialled at Forth’s Deep Recovery Facility
A new technique to remove sludge from nuclear fuel ponds has been successfully trialled at the Deep Recovery Facility (DRF) operated by UK engineering firm Forth. The facility has...
Reactor vessel removed at Unterweser
The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Germany’s single unit Unterweser NPP in the Wesermarsch district of Lower Saxony has been removed as part of its decommissioning using...
Berkeley decommissioning to begin five decades ahead of schedule
UK Magnox is preparing to begin a key decommissioning project to demolish four blower houses at the site of the closed Berkeley NPP.
Cavendish contracted to support decommissioning of Japan’s Monju reactor
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has awarded UK-based Cavendish Nuclear, a subsidiary of Babcock International Group, a contract to support of the decommissioning of the...
