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Cavendish contracted to support decommissioning of Japan’s Monju reactor
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has awarded UK-based Cavendish Nuclear, a subsidiary of Babcock International Group, a contract to support of the decommissioning of the...
Russia develops new decontamination technology
Rosatom fuel company TVEL and the Troitsk Institute of Innovative & Thermonuclear Research (TRINITI) have developed a technology to decontaminate radiation-contaminated metal...
Divers help to clean up Sellafield legacy storage pond
Underwater Construction Corporation (UCC) UK Ltd (a subsidiary of US-based UCC) says it has achieved a significant decommissioning milestone at the UK Sellafield site. In December...
Germany closes last three NPPs
Germany has permanently shut down its final three commercial nuclear power reactors completing its delayed nuclear phaseout despite the ongoing European energy crisis and...
Decommissioning progresses in Germany
The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment has granted utility EnBW Kernkraft GmbH approval to decommission and dismantle unit 2 of its Neckarwestheim NPP. The plant is due to...
US DOE begins demolishing Low Intensity Test Reactor
The US Department of Energy (DOE) says the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its clean-up contractor, UCOR (United Cleanup Oak Ridge) have begun tearing down the...
Belgian companies set up CYCLADE decommissioning partnership
Five Belgian companies have set up CYCLADE (CYCLotrons Advanced DEcommissioning) as a centre of expertise for decommissioning accelerators and cyclotrons. The companies include...
Taiwan’s Kuosheng unit 2 closed for decommissioning
Unit 2 of Taiwan's Kuosheng NPP has been closed in preparation for decommissioning in accordance with Taiwan's nuclear phase-out policy after its 40-year operating licence...
Second cooling tower demolished at Germany’s Biblis NPP
The second of four cooling towers at Germany’s Biblis NPP in southern Hesse. As with the first tower three weeks before, a pneumatic excavator from a special company worked on the...
Orano DS implements accelerated decommissioning at Crystal River NPP
US-based Orano Decommissioning Services (Orano DS) is implementing an innovative method for rapid reactor dismantling at unit 3 of the Crystal River NPP (CR3). The patented...
French researchers use muons to model reactor
Researchers at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) have created a 3D image of the G2 reactor at Marcoule using muons. Such imaging will aid in dismantling...
Biblis NPP cooling tower demolished
The first of four cooling towers has been demolished at Germany’s Biblis. The two-unit Biblis plant (A&B), each with two cooling towers, was shut down in March 2011 in response to...
ANSTO begins Lucas Heights remediation
The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation has begun remediation activities at its Lucas Heights facility near Sydney.
Belgium’s Tihange 2 closes
Unit 2 of Belgium’s Tihange NPP has closed down after 40 years of operation, in accordance with 2003 Belgian law on nuclear phase-out. It is the second reactor to close under the law...
French joint venture contracted to support dismantling of Ignalina NPP
Graphitech, a joint venture established in 2020 by French companies EDF and Veolia, has signed a contract with Lithuania’s State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) for...
Russia postpones dismantling of unfinished Crimean NPP
Crimea’s Ministry of Construction & Architecture has postponed dismantling of an unfinished NPP in the city of Shchelkino until the end of 2023. It was previously scheduled to...
Canada’s Whiteshell reactor decommissioning enters final regulatory review
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has accepted the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed in-situ decommissioning of the Whiteshell Reactor 1 (WR-1).
Russia dismantles two uranium graphite reactors
Russia’s Experimental-Demonstration Centre for Decommissioning Uranium-Graphite Nuclear Reactors (UDC UGR, part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom) has completed the dismantling...
IAEA reports on Indonesia’s decommissioning and radwaste management
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has delivered to the Indonesian National Research Innovation Agency (BRIN) the final report of a peer review of its programme...
