SEPA has announced its intention to hold a public consultation on the proposed solid low level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounreay. Read it all..

The Government has yesterday issued three publications relating to the framework for ensuring that operators of new nuclear power stations make secure financial provision for their decommissioning and waste management liabilities.  They are: Read it all..

Bradwell Site’s turbine hall demolition project has come to an end, ahead of schedule and below budget.  Read it all..

Magnox Press Release

Magnox has awarded a framework contract worth £304 million for de-planting, demolition and bulk asbestos removal across 10 nuclear reactor sites in the UK. Read it all..

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.

The Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) was the very first nuclear fuel storage pond constructed at Sellafield and to this day remains the largest open air nuclear storage pond in the world. The pond was built to store nuclear fuel and isotopes from the Windscale Reactors that produced nuclear materials for the defence industry. The Windscales Piles as they are better known never actually generated electricity, but were the precursor to our Calder Hall reactor – the first commercial reactor in the world. Read it all..

Decommissioning progress on one of Sellafield’s oldest nuclear plants has taken a giant step forward with three significant new contracts, totaling over £160m, put in place to enable radioactive waste retrievals.

The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo (PFCS) is almost 60 years old and contains over 4000m3 of historic radioactive waste which has to be retrieved from the facility as part of the decommissioning work. Read it all..

Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has been appointed as outsourced advisors to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on its national portfolio which combined with its subsidiary property company, comprises a 2,900 hectare (7,150 acre) estate valued at c£500m. Read it all..

Sellafield Ltd has awarded four-year Decommissioning Framework Agreements to supply a range of services to support decommissioning to the following:

• Astrel (Aker Solutions E&C Ltd., Hertel Ltd., Studsvik UK Ltd.)
• Cumbria Nuclear Solutions Ltd (James Fisher Nuclear Ltd., React Engineering Ltd., Shepley Engineers Ltd., Stobbarts Ltd., WYG Engineering Ltd., along with the international engineering organisation Westinghouse Electric Co UK Ltd.)
• DEV Nuclear (Doosan Power Systems Ltd., Energy Solutions EU Ltd. and Babcock Nuclear Ltd.)
• Nuvia Ltd. Read it all..

Pond One of Sellafield’s historic fuel storage ponds is benefiting from the development of a new sludge retrieval machine to help safely decommission what is a 60 year old facility. The sludge retrieval project has taken nine years of work requiring significant engineering on the plant, as well as the design of bespoke equipment to operate in an underwater, radioactive environment. Read it all..

The UK Government and the Scottish Ministers have approved our new Strategy. This statutory document sets the direction for delivering the nuclear clean-up programme. Read it all..