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Journey's end for fast reactor fuel
A consignment of irradiated experimental fast reactor fuel has returned to the Idaho National Laboratory in the USA from France for the final stages of a study that has been ongoing for over eight years.
New Nuclear
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Final voyage for Atlantic Osprey
After years of transporting materials to facilitate nuclear recycling, UK-registered nuclear cargo vessel
Atlantic Osprey
has begun its final voyage to the Swansea dock where it is itself destined to be broken up and recycled.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 22 August 2014
Damaged Paks fuel sent to Russia
The used fuel assemblies that were damaged during a chemical cleaning process at Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant in 2003 have been transported to Russia for processing.
Uranium & Fuel
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Russian waste transport ship completes test mission
The
Rossita
, a nuclear waste transport ship donated to Russia by Italy in 2011, has completed its first mission.
Waste & Recycling
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Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Vessel head journeys to Callaway
A new reactor vessel closure head has completed a five-week journey by sea, river and road to arrive at the Callaway nuclear power plant in Missouri, USA.
Corporate
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Friday, 13 June 2014
High-level waste arrives in Japan
The fourth and largest shipment so far of high-level waste from the UK to Japan has been completed. All such waste, resulting from the reprocessing of used reactor fuel, should be returned from the UK to Japan by the end of the decade.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Convoy tests 'Iter Itinerary'
A 600-tonne dummy load has completed a journey by land and water to test out the logistics of transporting major components to the Iter fusion reactor site in southern France.
New Nuclear
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Hex cylinders in port drop
Port authorities are investigating how four cylinders containing enriched uranium hexafluoride were dropped during unloading operations at Halifax in Canada's Nova Scotia.
Regulation & Safety
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Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Paladin cleans up after uranium spill
A small quantity of uranium oxide concentrate has been removed for safe disposal after a "minor incident" during a routine shipment of product from Paladin's Kayelekera mine in Malawi.
Regulation & Safety
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Monday, 17 February 2014
Swedish ship makes first shipment
SKB's new vessel for transporting used nuclear fuel and radioactive waste by sea, the
M/S Sigrid
, has made its first shipment. It replaces the smaller
M/S Sigyn
, which had been in service since 1982.
New Nuclear
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Sea route safe from strontium sources
Fourteen radioisotope thermoelectric generators, some used to power Arctic lighthouses, have been recovered from Russia's northern coastline in an international effort to secure vulnerable radioactive materials.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 15 November 2013
Nuclear ship takes Olympic flame to North Pole
The torch relay for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi reached the North Pole with the aid of the world's largest nuclear-powered icebreaker.
Other News
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Friday, 25 October 2013
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