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Rosatom develops new technology for decontamination of NPP equipment using ozone
A technology unique to the Russian nuclear industry has been developed by order of Rosatom’s fuel company Tvel at the Troitsk Institute for Innovation & Fusion Research (Triniti) as...
Westinghouse and EDF contracted to help dismantle Ignalina NPP reactor cores
Lithuania’s Ignalina NPP (INPP) has signed two contracts for the provision of services for the design of reactor dismantling technologies with two major international consortia. The...
Nuvia to support decommissioning of Sweden’s Ringhals 2
UK-based Nuvia said its subsidiary, Nuvia Nordic, had been selected by Vattenfall to contribute to dismantling unit 2 of the Ringhals NPP in Sweden, where it has been involved in most...
Japanese district court rejects injunction to close Mihama 3
Japan’s Osaka District Court has rejected an injunction against continued operation of unit 3 at Kansai Electric Power Co’s Mihama NPP in Fukui Prefecture. The 46-year-old...
Dismantling continues at US Vermont Yankee NPP
Accelerated decommissioning of the boiling water reactor (BWR) at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant is continuing, with dismantling and packaging of the reactor pressure vessel...
KHNP and Candu Energy to cooperate in decommissioning
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and SNC-Lavalin subsidiary Candu Energy for cooperation in areas such as...
IAEA reviews waste management in Germany
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning and Remediation (ARTEMIS) team said...
Commissioning of used fuel drying station completed at Finnish encapsulation plant
The drying station for used nuclear fuel became the first commissioning process in the equipment installation subproject to be completed with regulatory approval at the...
IAEA task force reviews Japan’s plans for discharge of Fukushima water
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Task Force – set up last year to review the safety of the implementation of Japan’s Basic Policy to handle the treated water stored at...
Belgian court permits decommissioning of Doel NPP unit 3
Unit 3 of Belgium’s Doel NPP was shut down earlier this year in accordance with the 2003 Belgian law on nuclear phase-out, and work to prepare the reactor for dismantling has now...
Orano and TEPCO strengthen co-operation on fuel debris removal at Fukushima
Orano has signed an engineering support contract with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and its Fukushima Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company subsidiary for...
Russia’s Kursk unit 2 to be permanently closed in 2024
The RBMK-1000 reactor at unit 2 of the Kursk NPP will be permanently shut down in 2024, plant director Alexander Uvakin has announced. “Last year, as planned, unit 1 was closed and...
Clean-up project proceeds at Idaho National Laboratory site
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has said that work has begun at EM’s Idaho Clean-up Project (ICP), with the aim of achieving an end state for...
Another closed reactor “cocooned” at US Hanford site
Workers from the Central Plateau Clean-up Company (CPC Co), contracted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Office, have constructed a protective...
Defuelling completed at Japan’s Monju FBR
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has announced that defueling has been completed at the Monju prototype spodium-cooled fast breeder reactor (FBR) in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture. The...
Belgium’s AVN demands inspection of Doel 3 before decommissioning begins
Belgium’s Association Vinçotte Nuclear (AVN) has called for urgent inspection of unit 3 at the Doel NPP, which was intended to shut down in October. AVN has asked the Federal Agency...
Increased funding for Norwegian nuclear decommissioning
The Norwegian government proposes to increase the allocation for handling nuclear waste and nuclear facilities for Norsk Nukleær Dekommisjonering (Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning -...
First containers sealed at Dounreay's low-level waste vaults
Workers at the UK’s former fast reactor test facility at Dounreay in Scotland - which operated from 1955 to 1994 - have completed the first in a series of campaigns to seal the...
NGOs take legal action over closure of Belgian NPPs
Several Belgian NGOs are taking the Belgian state and energy company Engie-Electrabel and transmission system operator Elia to court over the closure of unit 3 at the Doel NPP and unit...
