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	<description>Making Sense Of Nuclear Industry Issues</description>
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		<title>Dounreay Waste Disposal Facility</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2012/01/dounreay-waste-disposal-facility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ SEPA has announced its intention to hold a public consultation on the proposed solid low level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounreay. DSRL applied to SEPA in November 2010 for an authorisation to disposal of solid low level waste in the new disposal facility, which is currently under construction. The public consultation is expected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2012/01/geological-disposal-of-radioactive-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2012/01/geological-disposal-of-radioactive-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency have recently published two reports on work relating to possible disposal of most of the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste in a geological disposal facility deep underground. Geological disposal is the UK Government’s preferred approach for the management of higher activity radioactive waste in England and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrated Waste Management Programme</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/12/integrated-waste-management-programme/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/12/integrated-waste-management-programme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NDA has published its draft Strategy Development Programme for Integrated Waste Management for comment. The paper articulates the work required to develop a comprehensive NDA Integrated Waste Management Strategy that will drive Lifetime Plan development and lead in due course to the estate wide optimisation of waste management. The purpose of documenting the strategy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Geological Disposal</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/10/deep-geological-disposal/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/10/deep-geological-disposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of the ENS newletter has a report on deep geological disposal of nuclear waste and spent fuel. Isolation in deep geological formations (geological disposal) is now considered the safest of all long-term solutions to the problem of dealing with long-lived nuclear waste. Particular attention has been given worldwide to the high-level radioactive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waste Vitrification Plant Line 3 Returns to Service</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/10/waste-vitrification-plant-line-3-returns-to-service/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/10/waste-vitrification-plant-line-3-returns-to-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radioactive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sellafield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sellafield Ltd has taken a major step forward towards its mission of high hazard reduction by successfully returning to service the Waste Vitrification Plant Line 3. The Vitrification plants Line 3, which converts high active radioactive liquor into glass, is back in full operation after an 18 month shutdown due to an issue with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underpinning Science and Technology for Radioactive Waste</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/10/underpinning-science-and-technology-for-radioactive-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/10/underpinning-science-and-technology-for-radioactive-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rwmd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) is sponsoring the &#8220;Underpinning Science and Technology for Radioactive Waste&#8221; conference which takes place at Loughborough University, Leicestershire from 18 to 20 October 2011. The conference is being jointly organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry&#8217;s Radiochemistry group and: the Geological Society, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese HAW Return Underway</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/08/1675/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/08/1675/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The programme of returning solid highly active waste (HAW) from the UK to Japan has continued today with the commencement of the transport of the second consignment of HAW from Sellafield.  Three transport flasks, containing 76 canisters of HAW, have departed Sellafield site by rail bound for the port of Barrow-in-Furness, before being transported by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commission Welcomes Radioactive Waste Directive</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/07/commission-welcomes-radioactive-waste-directive/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/07/commission-welcomes-radioactive-waste-directive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Council has adopted the &#8220;radioactive waste and spent fuel management directive&#8221;, proposed by the Commission on 3rd November 2010. With this adoption, the Directive will enter into force at the latest in September this year. Will the EU have binding standards for managing radioactive waste in the EU? Including final repositories for nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sludge Retrieval Kit Installed in PFSP</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/02/sludge-retrieval-kit-installed-in-pfsp/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/02/sludge-retrieval-kit-installed-in-pfsp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sellafield]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The final piece in the jigsaw is now in place to start bulk sludge retrieval in one of the priority decommissioning projects at Sellafield. An important piece of new kit has been installed in the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) known as the Sludge Retrieval Hood (SRH). The SRH, together with a Remotely Operated Vehicle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babcock Wins Magnox ILW Contract</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/02/babcock-wins-magnox-ilw-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/02/babcock-wins-magnox-ilw-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[babcock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radioactive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Babcock has been awarded a framework contract by Magnox Ltd for the retrieval and processing of both wet and solid intermediate level radioactive waste (ILW) across all the Magnox sites in the UK. Work to be carried out under the framework contract will include the supply of equipment and technical support in the form of [...]]]></description>
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