Sellafield
Following a 4 year residency at the National Nuclear Laboratories NNL at Workington, the Master Slave Manipulator (MSM) training facility has relocated to the Sellafield site making savings of £10,000 each month in ground rent costs.
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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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AMEC has been awarded a contract to supply radiological, environmental and site characterisation support to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.
Decommissioning Sub Committee six monthly report from March to August 2011 for Sellafield, Windscale and Calder Hall (West Cumbria Sites Stakeholder Group) now available.
Sellafield Ltd has requested agreement to commence the export of a single skip of metal fuel from the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) to the Fuel Handling Plant (FHP).
Sellafield Ltd has taken an important step towards decommissioning a 60-year-old storage pond originally built to store fuel from the Windscale Pile Reactors, by retrieving the very first nuclear fuel out of the pond since the 1960s.
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A multi million pound Nitrogen Generation Plant is to be installed at the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo at Sellafield, replacing the 30 year old existing facility.
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NNL have a requirement to improve, replace and refurbish much of the Windscale Laboratory on Sellafield Site. Over the next 5 years, this is expected to cost in the region of £77M.
Preparations are being made at Sellafield for the new multi million pound Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF).
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Following a lengthy period of active commissioning, the ONR (Office of Nuclear Regulation) has now issued REF with the required Licence Instrument.
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