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Keeping a close eye on nuclear waste
11 November, 2021
A new inspection system should increase the speed and effectiveness of visual inspection of waste at Sellafield
Nuclear decommissioning: plans, challenges, and innovations
20 October, 2021
Speakers at a recent event highlighted several difficulties facing nuclear decommissioning projects and discussed some of the R&D and technical innovations that are supporting decontamination, remediation, and radioactive waste management. Caroline Peachey reports
Mapping the UK’s road to advanced nuclear fuels
14 October, 2021
The UK’s Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme is taking a strategic approach to advanced nuclear fuels and says it has passed a ‘major milestone’ in enabling policymakers and industry to plan for the future
Nuclear: building industry in Bridgwater
23 September, 2021
Sam Orchard explains how the local supply chain has been supporting construction of the UK’s Hinkley Point C
Using robots to clear the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo
02 September, 2021
Cavendish Nuclear and Sellafield have embraced robots in handling legacy intermediate level waste at the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo
Retrofitting obsolete alarm annunciators
26 August, 2021
When it comes to industrial alarm annunciators, many facilities suffer from issues relating to obsolescence management. As many former alarm system manufacturers are no longer in business, sites haven’t updated the original systems that were installed decades ago. Here Gary Bradshaw, director of critical alarm specialist Omniflex, describes his experiences retrofitting alarm annunciators at a nuclear power plant in the Northwest of England.
Hearings raise a jobs question: nuclear or tourism?
22 July, 2021
Public hearings during the development consent process for Sizewell C have useful lessons for follow-on plants, Janet Wood reports
Using waste to fuel future reactors
03 June, 2021
David Bradbury, George Elder, David Hebditch and Susan Hewish suggest how today’s nuclear waste can be used as future nuclear fuel and how this could affect management of existing and future waste streams.
Qualifying canned motor pumps
19 May, 2021
A multidisciplinary study focusing on nuclear qualification, electrical-thermal modelling and testing has been carried out in order to increase the service life of canned motors and to improve electrical and thermal performance while fulfilling safety functions. Rémy Schmidt, Virgile Bissardon and Dr Amadou Tinni report
A new model for nuclear new-build
22 April, 2021
Anton Dedusenko, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, JSC Rusatom Energy International (JSC REIN), speaks to NEI
Fukushima Ten Years On: Lessons Learned
21 April, 2021
Ian McKinley, Shinichi Nakayama and Susie Hardie consider how recovery has progressed at Fukushima Daiichi and what lessons can be learned for the future
U-Battery progress
23 February, 2021
U-Battery’s parallel development in the UK and Canada is hitting milestones toward first-of-a-kind operation in 2028. Jacquie Hoornweg reports
Nuclear skills development in the South West
26 January, 2021
The UK’s National College for Nuclear is embracing virtual reality and remote technology to train the future nuclear workforce. By Mary Payne
Making history in Tennessee
07 January, 2021
The Uranium Enrichment Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was in operation for 40 years. It has taken almost as long — 35 years — to clean it up. Mike Butler and Susanne Dupes look to its next chapter
