Waste
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.
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.
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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.
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 programme of returning solid Highly Active Waste (HAW) from Sellafield to Japan will continue with a second shipment, this time consisting of three flasks.
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A joint venture of AMEC, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc and Costain, is one of six organisations awarded a framework contract by Magnox Limited to provide waste retrieval, processing and filling services at eight of their nuclear power station sites across the UK.
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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The latest United Kingdom Radioactive Waste Inventory has been published today by NDA.
Multi element bottles decontamination trials save on costs and valuable disposal space.
