Radioactive
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.
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Our Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) is sponsoring the “Underpinning Science and Technology for Radioactive Waste” conference which takes place at Loughborough University, Leicestershire from 18 to 20 October 2011.
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For many years, nuclear regulators have actively worked towards integrated management of radioactive waste on nuclear sites, via the development and use of, integrated waste strategies.
Dounreay’s decommissioning contractor sets out what will happen to an estimated 300,000 tonnes of radioactive material from the clean-out and closure of the former nuclear research site.
A notice published today in the Official Journal of the European Union seeks expressions of interest from companies capable of building a plant to grout low-level radioactive waste prior to its disposal at Dounreay.
Government published its first Annual Report to Parliament on the MRWS programme on 28 June 2011.
Operational Issues in Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning is the no registration fee Summer School taking place in Ispra 5-8 July 2011. There is a pdf about the meeting here. You can find out the details and register here.
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Disposal of the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste in an underground engineered facility will generate an average of 550 jobs over its 140 year lifespan, according to a study published by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
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A new laboratory is to be built at Dounreay to provide essential support to the remainder of the site clean-up.
Costain has been granted its first nuclear-related patent, for a more efficient method of immobilising radioactive sludge in a cement matrix, granted after an extensive four-year examination process by the Patent Office.
