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Steam generators destined for Kudankulam NPP stranded at sea on damaged barge
The barge vital carrying two steam generators for units 5&6 of India’s Kudankulam NPP is stuck on a rock close to the plant’s purpose built jetty. The ongoing operation to rescue...
Orano and Urenco to develop 30B-X cylinder HALEU fuel transport
France nuclear fuel company Orano and Europe-based uranium enrichment company Urenco have signed a consortium agreement to test and develop the new 30B-X cylinder designed to...
Studies investigate potential of nuclear shipping
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has commissioned US-based Herbert Engineering Corp (HEC) to investigate the potential of advanced modern reactor technology for commercial...
Canadian drones approved for dangerous goods transportation
Drone Delivery Canada Corp (DDC) has received approval from Transport Canada for Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) flights in tandem with the transportation of dangerous goods for...
UK nuclear shipping may go green
The UK’s Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS), part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), is collaborating with renewable marine technology specialist Smart Green Shipping (SGS)...
Tests completed on transport container for Hualong One fresh fuel
The CNFC-HL01 Hualong One fresh fuel transport container prototype independently developed by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has completed a series of verification tests...
Gemini containers used to ship waste to Sellafield
The first UK shipment of legacy waste drums from Magnox Harwell to Sellafield has been completed using the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA’s) Type B Gemini container...
China’s CIMC ENRIC wins record export order from Europe for nuclear fuel transport containers
China’s CIMC Enric Holdings Ltd announced that its subsidiary, Nantong CIMC Energy Equipment Co Ltd, has won an order for 3,000 storage and transport containers for uranium...
Milestone for UK waste project
A major project to dispose of more than 1000 stainless steel drums of waste from the Winfrith Magnox site at Nuclear Waste Services’ Low Level Waste Repository site in the...
Intermediate-level waste repatriated to Australia
A consignment of intermediate-level waste (ILW) was delivered to the interim waste store at the he Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO’s) Lucas...
Framatome receives US NRC approval to transport higher enriched fuel
France’s Framatome said it has achieved a significant milestone for the delivery of nuclear fuel at higher enrichment and burnup levels.
India orders transport casks from Holtec for Kudankulam
US-based Holtec International announced that its India based subsidiary in Pune, Holtec Asia, had received an order for two transport casks from Nuclear Power Corporation of India...
Kansai Electric returns unused fuel to UK
Kansai Electric Power Company has returned 40 unused fuel assemblies from unit 2 of its Mihama nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukui Prefecture to the Westinghouse Springfields...
US tests new railcar for used fuel and radwaste transport
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy (ONE) said on 11 January that a new high-tech railcar developed by the US Navy and DOE) was en route from Oregon to a...
Canada’s NWMO releases transportation plans
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) in early January released two planning documents that, it said, “address the wide range of priorities, questions and concerns...
US certification for NAC International's OPTIMUS-L transport packaging
NAC International Inc. announced it has received US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) certification for the OPTIMUS®-L version of its versatile OPTImal Modular...
Orano acquires STSI from the Geodis group
The Orano group and Geodis, a subsidiary of the SNCF Group signed an agreement for the acquisition by Orano Nuclear Packages and Services (Orano NPS) of Société de Transports...
First steam generator delivered to Russia’s Kursk-II
The first of four steam generators for the VVER-TOI reactor under construction at unit 1 of Russia’s Kursk-II NPP had been delivered to the construction site. The steam generator...
UK recycles decommissioned nuclear cargo vessel
The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said on 12 October Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS), which operated Oceanic Pintail, had set Dales Marine Services the challenge...
