NDA’s Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) has published independent research commissioned to review the performance of five potential metals that could be used in the manufacture of canisters for the disposal of High Level Waste (HLW) and Spent Fuel (SF) in a geological disposal facility.
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Your leading article (Monday 2nd August) suggests that the Government does not seem gripped by sufficient urgency in pushing nuclear power and that “green dogma threatens to saddle it with the wrong energy policies”. You are wrong on both counts.
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Jeff Merrifield’s case study of Shaw’s nuclear new build fleet in China. They are building the fleet using the modular construction technique.
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Hazard reduction at Sellafield has taken a major step forward today with the successful transfer of 14,800 litres of historic radioactive liquid waste from a fifty year old nuclear waste storage silo for safe treatment.
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Nuclear Power Delivery UK – the delivery organisation for the Westinghouse-designed AP1000™ nuclear reactor – today signed a contract with Horizon Nuclear Power for preliminary work to be carried out between now and the end of the year, as part of preparatory design studies for Horizon’s proposed new power station in North Wales.
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This document sets out guidance on safeguards and nuclear material accountancy systems for nuclear sites in the UK.
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A state of the art facility for the storage of the nation’s low level nuclear waste opened at the NDA’s site near Drigg in Cumbria on 29 July 2010.
The board of directors at the Sheffield Forgemasters International has welcomed a recent statement from the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable, which pledges to support the company following the cancellation of an £80m government loan for a 15000 tonne press for nuclear castings.
