nuclear decommissioning News
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Heritage workshop hailed a success
A heritage workshop was held in Edinburgh in January as part of Dounreay's engagement programme to gather views on its draft Heritage Strategy. Key heritage organisations based outwith Caithness had the opportunity to discuss the site’s heritage options with the project team. Representatives from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Historic Scotland, National Museums Scotland, Royal ...
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Youngsters debate future of sphere in heritage consultation
Young people in Caithness are being encouraged to have their say on which aspects of the Dounreay former nuclear research facility should be preserved for posterity. The site’s draft heritage strategy has been published today, and Dounreay staff, contractors and the general public are being invited to comment on the proposals in a 12-week programme. Yesterday, the Dounreay Stakeholder Group ...
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Filtration Systems for Nuclear Decommissioning
Porvair Filtration Group is a specialist supplier of clean-up filtration systems for nuclear decommissioning and decontamination. As processes are developed to deal with nuclear legacy waste and strict legislation defines storage conditions, Porvair has developed solutions to meet increasingly complex filtration problems associated with decommissioning and decontamination facilities. Porvair ...
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Costain and Createc Develop Technology Set to Revolutionize Nuclear Decommissioning
Collaborative efforts between smart infrastructure solutions company Costain and technology researchers Createc have resulted in innovative measurement technology for analyzing radiation in contaminated structures, a move which could revolutionize nuclear decommissioning. During decommissioning of concrete structures, operators need to be able to work out accurately and rapidly exactly where the ...
By Costain
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Dounreay skills can harness power of the sea
Skills built up in Britain’s most successful nuclear decommissioning project can power Scotland’s new era in electricity from the sea, industrialists in Aberdeen heard today. Almost 2000 workers are dismantling the experimental fast reactor site at Dounreay on the north coast of Scotland, just a few miles from the Pentland Firth where plans are taking shape for the world’s biggest underwater ...
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Major milestone reached for new nuclear in Cumbria
A major step has been taken towards a new nuclear power station at Moorside, West Cumbria, that will create at least £10 billion worth of investment and thousands of jobs. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has agreed key commercial terms with Toshiba and its partner GDF Suez to extend a land option agreement that reaffirms the consortium’s commitment to build three reactors at ...
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Tetronics Supports Sellafield with Nuclear Decommissioning Research – Potentially Delivering Significant Economic Benefit to the UK
Tetronics has been commissioned to run trials for Sellafield Ltd using its plasma technology to convert a simulated Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) into a stabilised form with a considerable level of volume reduction. Tetronics Ltd., a global leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, today announced that it ...
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Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia to get more aid to decommission nuclear plants
EU financial aid to help Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia to complete the decommissioning of the Kozloduy, Ignalina and Bohunice nuclear power plants in the next EU budget period (2014-2020) was approved by MEPs on Tuesday. These power plants are "too dated and could not be cost-effectively upgraded to meet the minimum required safety standards" says rapporteur Giles Chichester (ECR, UK). The ...
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ENERCON Acquires Talisman International of Washington, D.C.
ENERCON, with corporate headquarters in Kennesaw, Ga. has acquired Talisman International, LLC of Washington, D.C., a high level nuclear regulatory consulting firm. Founded in 2002, Talisman is a litigation, technical and information security consulting company that specializes in providing services to firms addressing complex issues before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the NRC ...
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ENERCON Acquires Talisman International of Washington, D.C.
ENERCON, with corporate headquarters in Kennesaw, Ga. has acquired Talisman International, LLC of Washington, D.C., a high level nuclear regulatory consulting firm. Founded in 2002, Talisman is a litigation, technical and information security consulting company that specializes in providing services to firms addressing complex issues before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the NRC ...
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Europe’s nuclear club slows emissions cuts
The prospect of using nuclear energy appears to deter European countries from adopting renewable technologies such as wind and solar, and from introducing energy efficiency measures. Researchers say they found that countries in Europe intending to build new nuclear power stations have a poorer record of reducing their carbon emissions than those that have rejected the technology. Europe has a ...
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Westinghouse Contracted to Segment Spain’s José Cabrera Nuclear Reactor Vessel
Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded a contract by ENRESA (Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos), the Spanish agency responsible for radioactive waste management and nuclear plant decommissioning, to segment the reactor vessel head (RVH) and reactor vessel (RV) at the José Cabrera Nuclear Power Station (also known as Zorita). The contract represents the first time a ...
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NuScale submits first SMR application to U.S. regulators
NuScale Power has submitted its small modular reactor (SMR) design to U.S. regulators, the first design certification application for any SMR in the country. The company submitted its 12,000 page application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) last week. The NuScale SMR design consists of integrated pressurized water reactor modules capable of generating up to 50 megawatts (MW) of ...
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FirstEnergy Solutions` Purchase Power Agreement Key to Development of Largest Solar Project in Maryland
FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) today announced that its FirstEnergy Solutions subsidiary has signed a long-term agreement to purchase the output from the Maryland Solar Farm, a green energy facility planned for Hagerstown, Md. When the development is completed by Maryland Solar LLC, the facility will be the largest solar facility in Maryland and among the largest on the East Coast. Under the ...
By FirstEnergy
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FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities Launch Request for Proposal for 10-Year Renewable Energy Credits and Solar Renewable Energy Credits Generated in Ohio
FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) announced that a Request for Proposal (RFP) will be conducted to secure 10-year Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs) for customers of its Ohio utilities – Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating and Toledo Edison – to help meet the renewable energy benchmarks established under Ohio's energy law. The RFP seeks ...
By FirstEnergy
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FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Utilities File Plan to Purchase Electric Generation Supply Beginning in 2013
FirstEnergy's (NYSE: FE) Metropolitan Edison (Met-Ed), Pennsylvania Electric (Penelec), Pennsylvania Power (Penn Power), and West Penn Power utility companies have filed a plan with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PPUC) to procure electric generation supply beginning June 2013 for customers who choose not to shop with alternate suppliers. The companies, which do not own any electric ...
By FirstEnergy
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FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities Launch Request for Proposal for 10-Year Solar Renewable Energy Credits Generated in Ohio
AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) announced that a Request for Proposal (RFP) will be conducted to secure 10-year contracts to provide Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs) for customers of its Ohio utilities – Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating and Toledo Edison – to help meet the renewable energy benchmarks established under Ohio's ...
By FirstEnergy
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Calif. utility will close troubled nuclear plant
The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coast is closing after an epic 16-month battle over whether the twin reactors could be safely restarted with millions of people living nearby, officials announced Friday. Operator Southern California Edison said in a statement it will retire the twin reactors because of uncertainty about the future of the plant, which faced a tangle ...
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Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Begins Maintenance Outage
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), announced its Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, will shut down early Saturday morning to begin installation of a new reactor vessel head and complete other scheduled maintenance. The new reactor head enhances safe and reliable operation of Davis-Besse. The new head, which replaces ...
By FirstEnergy
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AEP Places Carbon Capture Commercialization on Hold, Citing Uncertain Status of Climate Policy, Weak Economy
American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) is terminating its cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy and placing its plans to advance carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to commercial scale on hold, citing the current uncertain status of U.S. climate policy and the continued weak economy as contributors to the decision. "We are placing the project on hold until ...
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