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WIPP marks TRU shipment milestone
The US Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has received over 50 shipments of transuranic waste since shipments resumed in April.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Japan and Russia join forces on waste management
Japan and Russia have signed a memorandum on the exchange of information on reactor physics experiments for minor actinoid transmutation for radioactive waste processing and management. The document was signed on 6 September in Vladivostok, Russia, during the Eastern Economic Forum by Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachov and Japan Atomic Energy Agency President Toshio Kodama.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 8 September 2017
UK's Pile Fuel Cladding Silo opened for first time
The world's oldest nuclear waste store - the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at Sellafield, England - has been cut open for the first time, Sellafield Ltd and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced yesterday. Built in the 1950s when the site's purpose was to make material for nuclear weapons, the silo is a locked vault that was "never designed to be opened", they said.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Korea develops expertise for Kori 1 decommissioning
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has signed contracts with several domestic companies to develop technologies for decommissioning Kori unit 1, which was permanently shut down in June. It is the first South Korean reactor to enter decommissioning.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 4 September 2017
CNSC completes review of disposal facility draft EIS
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has completed its technical assessment of a draft environmental impact statement for a proposed Near Surface Disposal Facility for radioactive waste from Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' Chalk River site. CNL must now address all federal and public comments received on the proposal before submitting its final EIS.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 4 September 2017
Partitioning and Transmutation for waste management
The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory announced yesterday that new research into nuclear energy generation proposes a "paradigm change" to support future reactor systems which 'eat up' used fuel without prior reprocessing to 'squeeze out' a factor of up to 20 times more energy from nuclear fuel. The systems could lead, NNL said, to a "significantly simpler" fuel cycle, an end to the accumulation of used fuel, and the elimination of any waste which would need to be stored for many thousands of years, while providing large-scale and secure low carbon electricity.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 1 September 2017
Urenco tails plant to start up in 2018
Uranium enrichment company Urenco yesterday said it expects to commission the Tails Management Facility (TMF) at Capenhurst in the UK in 2018, after construction delays. The facility, to deconvert depleted uranium hexafluoride tails, had previously been expected to enter service this year.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 1 September 2017
Construction of waste repository for Bulgaria
Bulgaria started construction of a national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste yesterday, marking the occasion with a ceremony. The repository is being built at the Radiana site, close to the Kozloduy nuclear power plant.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Amec Foster Wheeler awarded UK waste contracts
Global engineering consultancy Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded two framework contracts by the UK's LLW Repository Ltd to carry out environmental safety case and waste characterisation work. The combined value of the contracts is about £4.0 million ($5.1 million).
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Kyrgyzstan ratifies remediation agreement
All the basic conditions are now in place for remediation work to begin at several uranium legacy sites in Kyrgyzstan after the country ratified a framework agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The European Union is to provide an initial contribution of €16.5 million ($19.4 million) for the work.
Uranium & Fuel
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Friday, 18 August 2017
Mayak receives nuclear sub fuel from Andreeva Bay
The first shipment of used nuclear fuel assemblies from Russian nuclear submarines has arrived at the radiochemical plant Mayak in Chelyabinsk, near the Ural Mountains, from the former base of the Russian Northern Fleet at Andreeva Bay.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 17 August 2017
Oak Ridge ships first TRU waste since 2012
The US Department of Energy's Transuranic Waste Processing Center, at Oak Ridge in Tennessee, has sent its first shipment of processed and treated transuranic waste since 2012 for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, in New Mexico.
Waste & Recycling
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Tuesday, 15 August 2017
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