The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA has today (1 September 2010) published the draft of its updated Strategy for consultation.
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has published the UK Strategy for the Management of Solid Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLW) from the Nuclear Industry.
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Small and Medium Sized (SMEs) businesses are invited to attend an event aimed at saving them valuable time, by removing complexity, and steering them through the maze of information already available and help provide a head-start for them to compete for nuclear supply chain contracts.
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Publication of the NDA updated Strategy is due no later than March 2011. We will launch a consultation on our Draft Strategy on 1 September 2010. Below are details of the timescales for publication of our final Strategy.
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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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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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The NDA’s latest newsletter gives an insight into Nuclear Decommissioning.
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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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The NDA has appointed Bruce McKirdy as the Managing Director of its Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD).
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