Collaborative working by teams at Sellafield has delivered a solution to a problematic waste disposal issue, saving the company over £250,000 in the process.
Contracts in support of the preparatory studies phase of the UK’s geological disposal facility (GDF) for higher activity nuclear wastes.
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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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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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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 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under the auspices of the Research Council Energy Programme (RCEP), has been working with the NDA’s Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) to identify research challenges associated with the implementation of a geological waste facility.
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NDA has set out details of how it could implement the UK Government’s solution to deal with higher activity radioactive waste through disposal deep underground in a geological disposal facility. This process will be based on a voluntarism and partnership approach.
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HALEF, a partnership comprising AMEC, Balfour Beatty and AREVA, announced today that it has been awarded the Early Contractor Engagement phase by Sellafield Limited for the Highly Active Effluent Facility project.
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IAEA Promotes Sharing of Experience and Good Practices Among States.
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Two important high hazard risk reduction milestones have been achieved in the clean up of the historic Pile Fuel Storage Pond facility at Sellafield.
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