Tag Archives: decommissioning

TEPCO bears responsibility for decommissioning over generations via Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2019/07/31 by nfield

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has announced that it will decommission all four reactors at its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant. The decision indicates the landscape of nuclear energy in Japan is entering an age of mass decommissioning. TEPCO plans … Continue reading →

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Fukushima governor accepts Tepco plan to scrap No. 2 nuclear plant and store spent fuel on site via Japan Times

Posted on 2019/07/31 by nfield

[…] The decision means that all 10 nuclear reactors in the northeastern prefecture, including the six at the Fukushima No. 1 complex 12 kilometers from the No. 2 plant, will be scrapped, though the decommissioning work will take decades. Tepco’s … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Tepco to decommission second, undamaged Fukushima nuclear plant via CNA

Posted on 2019/07/24 by nfield

[…] Scrapping the reactors could mean Japanese nuclear operators would decommission 21 units, or nearly 40 per cent of their pre-disaster fleet, saddling them will billions of dollars of costs to dismantle and decontaminate the facilities. […] Before the March 2011 … Continue reading →

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Fast cleanup of nuclear reactors may be risky but also rewarding via Fox 5

Posted on 2019/05/23 by nfield

By Bob Salsberg, AP PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – Companies specializing in the handling of radioactive material are buying retired U.S. nuclear reactors from utilities and promising to clean them up and demolish them in dramatically less time than usual — eight … Continue reading →

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant To Close, Latest Symbol Of Struggling Industry via NPR

Posted on 2019/05/09 by nfield

By Jeff Brady 40 years after the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident, the remaining reactor still operating at Three Mile Island in South-central Pennsylvania is closing. Exelon announced Wednesday that Three Mile Island Generating Station Unit 1 will shut down by … Continue reading →

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Does the nuclear industry have a back door into its regulator? via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2019/04/29 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter […] In December 2017, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) released a report  which it posted on its website, and that of the Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI) — a division within the Department of … Continue reading →

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Tepco says foreign workers on new visas can work at crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant via Japan Times

Posted on 2019/04/18 by nfield

[…] Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has told dozens of its subcontractors that foreign workers coming under the recently adopted program, which is intended to address Japan’s acute labor shortage, may engage in the work of decommissioning the plant. … Continue reading →

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Where will the nuclear waste go after Three Mile Island shuts down? via The Inquirer

Posted on 2019/04/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

by Andrew Maykuth After the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear accident 40 years ago, most of the reactor’s partially melted uranium fuel was hauled away to the Idaho National Lab, where the radioactive waste now slowly decays in steel and concrete containers, … Continue reading →

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Kyushu Electric to scrap No. 2 reactor at Genkai nuclear plant due to cost of safety upgrades at aging site via The Japan Times

Posted on 2019/02/13 by nfield

[…] The utility abandoned a plan to restart the unit, which has an output of 559 megawatts, in the face of the huge costs involved in enhancing the safety of the reactor that is already near the end of its … Continue reading →

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How do you dismantle a nuclear power plant? Very, very carefully via Washington Post

Posted on 2019/02/01 by nfield

By Michael E. Ruane February 1 at 7:00 AM Behind the locked gates of Building 372 at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, past the door to the huge containment vessel where a sign warns of radiation, a large button on the control … Continue reading →

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