Tag Archives: decommissioning

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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10,000 Tons Of Nuclear Waste Removed From Sequoyah County via 6 on the scene

Posted on 2018/12/01 by nfield

SEQUOYAH COUNTY, Oklahoma – The Cherokee Nation says 10,000 tons of nuclear waste has been moved off the Sequoyah Fuels site near Gore.   The Cherokee Nation announced Friday that the waste was removed after the tribe and the state of Oklahoma … Continue reading →

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Robots come to the rescue after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster via CBS News

Posted on 2018/11/25 by nfield

[…] This is part of a massive clean up that’s expected to cost nearly $200 billion and take decades. Lesley Stahl: Has anything like this cleanup, in terms of the scope, ever happened before? Lake Barrett:  No, this is a … Continue reading →

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TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE The workers of Fukushima Daiichi　via Metropolis

Posted on 2018/09/28 by nfield

By Andrew Deck […] Since our day began at the edge of the exclusion zone in Tomioka, Fukushima, we had passed through half a dozen security checkpoints and received a full-body scan to measure internal radiation, a baseline reading for … Continue reading →

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‘Serious Near Miss’ Accident at San Onofre Sparks NRC Investigation via 7 San Diego

Posted on 2018/09/27 by nfield

By JW August A “serious near miss” accident at the San Onofre Nuclear power plant could have been catastrophic.  On August 3, a steel canister filled with hot nuclear waste was being lowered twenty feet into underground storage at San Onofre … Continue reading →

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SURFERS TAKING A STAND AGAINST SAN ONOFRE’S NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE via Surfer Magazine

Posted on 2018/08/31 by nfield

If you surf along the coast of Southern California, you’re likely aware that Southern California Edison is working to transport large amounts of spent nuclear fuel from the now-offline San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) into onsite dry-cask storage. The … Continue reading →

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Final fuel-removal exercise starts for problem-plagued Monju reactor via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/08/19 by nfield

[…] The JAEA will launch actual fuel removal operations this month if it finds the work can be conducted safely. It was initially planned to begin late last month but was postponed after problems plagued the equipment test. In the … Continue reading →

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The San Onofre nuclear plant is a ‘Fukushima waiting to happen’ via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2018/08/15 by nfield

By Steve Chappell Southern California Edison is keeping 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in San Clemente. The waste poses a significant threat to the health, safety and economic vitality of the … Continue reading →

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Monju reactor project failed to pay off after swallowing ¥1.13 trillion of taxpayers’ money: auditors via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/05/11 by nfield

[…] The trouble-plagued prototype, which only ran for 250 days, was designed to play a key role in Japan’s quest to set up a nuclear fuel recycling program, but the project only achieved 16 percent of the intended results, the … Continue reading →

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Unplanned Shutdown of Doel NPP’s Reactor Takes Place in Belgium　via Sputnik

Posted on 2018/04/23 by nfield

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The ENGIE Electrabel company operating the Doel nuclear power plant (NPP) in northern Belgium said on Monday that it had decided to halt the activities of a reactor at the NPP ahead of the schedule. According to ENGIE … Continue reading →

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