Decontamination for Decommissioning, Not a Cure-All: Better Not to Decontaminate for Clearance?
By Michele Laraia, former IAEA Unit Leader, consultant Michele Laraia’s series of articles are intended to start a conversation and
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Lessons Learned Decommissioning the UK
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority awarded AREVA a contract to provide engineering services to no less than 15 decommissioning sites across the UK. This article discusses three examples of their past and current projects, and provides information on safety, disposal path, technology, good management, planning, and lessons learned.
Read moreDairyland Power and EnergySolutions Sign License-Stewardship Agreement
Dairyland’s Possession Only License will be transferred to an EnergySolutions company, LaCrosseSolutions, which will assume responsibility for completing the remaining decommissioning of the site except for the spent nuclear fuel storage facility.
Read moreCharacterization for Decommissioning: Yes, But to What Extent?
A comprehensible and verifiable determination of the radiological inventory is essential for the decommissioning management with respect to safety, time and costs. For example, right from the start of the post operational phase, the radiological characterization has to enable the decision whether or not to perform a system decontamination, or to investigate waste disposal pathways.
Read moreWall to Block Flow of Water to Port Complete at Fukshima
Closure of wall, made possible by successful operations of pumping systems, is a milestone in TEPCO’s strategy to manage water during decommissioning
Read moreIAEA Calls for Papers for a Major Conference on Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation
What happens to a nuclear facility or a site after it served its purpose? This question will be the focus of
Read moreRinghals 1 & 2 to Begin Decommissioning Early
Vattenfall has decided to change the direction of the planned operational lifetimes for Ringhals 1 and 2. The reason is
Read moreMajor Milestone in Fukushima Decommissioning Effort Achieved
After months of careful preparation, workers at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station successfully completed removal of the largest and most complex piece of rubble from the severely damaged Unit 3 reactor building: the facility’s fuel handling machine (FHM).
Read moreSellafield Signs Multi-million Pound Decommissioning Contract
The BEP project is being delivered as an integral part of the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS) program, which is tackling the clean up of one of the most hazardous legacy facilities on the Sellafield site.
Read moreMagnox Signs £200 Million Contract for Waste Containers
Magnox signs framework contracts for supply of transportable self-shielded waste containers to store intermediate level waste (ILW), generated during the operational and early decommissioning phases of the UK’s Magnox nuclear power stations.
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