The Zion Nuclear Power Station consists of two commercial nuclear reactors and is currently being decommissioned. This plant consists of two nearly identical Westinghouse 1085 MWe Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR’s). Each reactor was online for approximately 22 years, after which they sat idle for 15 years.
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The 60MWt Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) at NASA’s Plum Brook Facility (PBRF) operated from 1962 to 1973 with full power operations totaling 98,000 MW-days. Between August 2003 and February 2005, a 9-foot (2.7m) x 31-foot (9.4m) tall PWR and the Reactor Vessel Internals (RVI) were disassembled and packaged for removal from the site in Sandusky, Ohio, US.
Too often in environmental design, visual quality—aesthetics—is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment.
Tearing down the huge Manhattan Project facilities at the former K-25 site, now known as the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) Heritage Center, and disposal of the hazardous and radioactive waste generated by their demolition pose some of the most complex environmental remediation challenges in the Department of Energy (DOE) complex.
With 1.6 billion people living without electricity in “an energy-starved world” and demand for power surging in China and India, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Director John Grossenbacher (speaking at the Idaho Falls City Club in April) says nuclear energy must be actively pursued and developed despite mounting global opposition to it following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan – the world’s worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
University of Kentucky (UK) College of Design students envision the Paducah site as a thriving, multiple-use area in the future.
Over the past year, the students have studied how to preserve, replace, or even build on …
Progress on Sellafield Ltd’s R&D activities was under the spotlight recently when members of the Nuclear Waste Research Forum (NWRF) met for their quarterly meeting at Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) headquarters at Herdus House.
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Workers have poured more than 1 million gallons of a cement-like grout into two underground radioactive waste tanks, moving the Savannah River Site (SRS) nearer to closing the massive structures.
SRS and liquid waste contractor …
CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company have successfully transported the last fragments of irradiated fuel from a reactor basin along the Columbia River to a storage facility on the Central Plateau of the Hanford Site in …
A video demonstration of the durability of the 2500 Series Level from Irwin.
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Locus acquires GSA contract to offer Cloud-based environmental and energy software to federal customers
Locus Technologies (Locus), providing Cloud-computing enterprise software for environmental, energy, air, water, and compliance management, has been awarded the U.S. General Services Administration …
Video of the CHORCE, used in performing horizontal cuts at Zion Unit-2 Core Barrel. For the full story, visit ndreport.com
Eastern Technologies Inc., the developers of OREXProtective Clothing, just announced they have finalized modifications on the Generation 2 OREX Processor, which features state-of-the-art OREX dissolution technology. Since OREX protective clothing is made from polyvinyl alcohol …
We, as an industry, are quickly becoming the antagonists in our own story of the expanding global nuclear decommissioning industry. Playing to the tune of more than $15 Billion per year, there can be no doubt that we are no longer a subset of the nuclear industry, but an industry standing on our own two feet.
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