Reactor
A vital flask to be used for the removal of the highly hazardous material from within the Dounreay Fast Reactor has been delivered, marking further progress for the shutdown of the site.
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The first UK nuclear power reactor has reached a significant milestone as the unique golf ball design reactor comes to the end of its 20 year decommissioning programme at Sellafield.
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Installation of two new twenty-seven tonne nitrogen tanks for the Dounreay Fast Reactor breeder building marks another notable step forward in preparation for taking apart the redundant reactor.
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Heysham 1 reactor 2 is now operating at around 90% of full load. Load has been reduced since October 2006 in order to reduce the surface temperature on an area within the reactor known as the hot box dome.
Emptying of the Dounreay Fast Reactor east pond is almost complete.
The Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor PFR decommissioning team has reached six years without a lost time accident, which equates to approximately two million man hours.
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Professor of Energy Studies Steve Thomas from University of Greenwich Business School has released a report ‘The EPR in crisis’.
A decommissioning team is well on its way to emptying the water-filled ponds used historically to store spent fuel from the Dounreay Fast Reactor.
Power-technology.com has published an online magazine with a report this month Nuclear’s Next Phase. It examines the possibilities for future nuclear power, including fission, fusion, fast breeders and high temperature gas reactor proposals.
Curtiss-Wright Flow Control – EMD and Westinghouse Electric Company LLC announced today that they are continuing the successful testing of the world’s largest canned-motor reactor coolant pump (RCP).
