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	<description>Making Sense Of Nuclear Industry Issues</description>
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		<title>Winfrith WETP Demolished</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2012/01/winfrith-wetp-demolished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Waste Encapsulation Treatment Plant (WETP) at Winfrith has been demolished, marking the final stage of decommissioning of the plant, following successful completion of a five year sludge retrieval and processing programme by site licence company RSRL, parent body organisation Babcock reports. The WETP was designed and built to receive and process sludge from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONR Guidance on Radioactive Waste Management</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/12/onr-guidance-on-radioactive-waste-management/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/12/onr-guidance-on-radioactive-waste-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONR guidance on radioactive waste management has been updated as a result of comments received since February 2010. Following a consultation exercise in 2002 the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Scottish Executive and the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) accepted a proposal from HSE, the Environment Agency (EA) and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dounreay Invites Tenders for Grout Plant</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/11/dounreay-invites-tenders-for-grout-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/11/dounreay-invites-tenders-for-grout-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An invitation to tender for the design and construction of a plant to grout low-level radioactive waste LLW  at Dounreay was issued to seven companies today, following a selection process that began in July. The companies invited to tender are Costain Oil Gas &#38; Process Ltd, Graham Construction, Nuvia Ltd, NUKEM Technologies, ONET Technologies UK, Portasilo [...]]]></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>
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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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/?p=1895</guid>
		<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>Integrated Waste Strategy Document</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/09/integrated-waste-strategy-document/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/09/integrated-waste-strategy-document/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/?p=1854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. In 2010 sufficient information had been gathered, to justify holding a significant regulator led National IWS Shaping Event. Following this event a factual report recording the days events and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waste Vitrification Plant Line 3 Returns to Operation</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/09/waste-vitrification-plant-line-3-returns-to-operation/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/09/waste-vitrification-plant-line-3-returns-to-operation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waste Vitrification Plant (WVP) line 3 has been safely returned to full operations within a few days of the original schedule following an outage spanning 18 months. This major achievement now enables further significant hazard and risk reduction on the Sellafield site by contributing to highly active liquor (HAL) stocks reduction and represents a key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New LLW Grout Plant Contract</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/08/new-llw-grout-plant-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/08/new-llw-grout-plant-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dounreay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Compacted waste from the clean-out and demolition of the site is currently stored in shipping containers and these need to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Crane Supports Clean Up Project</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/07/new-crane-supports-clean-up-project/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/07/new-crane-supports-clean-up-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new self erecting tower crane has been built at Sellafield as part of the work to retrieve historical waste from a 60-year-old silo. The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo (PFCS) is a priority decommissioning project which contains nuclear waste that needs to be retrieved, processed and packaged. The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sellafield Second Japan Waste Shipment</title>
		<link>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/07/sellafield-second-japan-waste-shipment/</link>
		<comments>http://nuclearmatters.co.uk/2011/07/sellafield-second-japan-waste-shipment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The programme of returning solid Highly Active Waste (HAW) from Sellafield to Japan will continue with a second shipment, this time consisting of three flasks. Preparations at Sellafield site are continuing with three flasks containing the HAW now loaded. The flasks are in the flask marshalling area on the Sellafield site in preparation for final [...]]]></description>
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