Decommissoning

UK nuclear power strategy: Costly, complicated and perhaps unnecessary, says expert

Nuclear power provided 21% of Britain's electricity last year but with all but one of the plants in the country to close by 2030, how key will it be moving forward?

GEH completes decommissioning project at Oskarshamn unit 2 in Sweden

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced that it has completed the safe dismantling of reactor internals at Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 in Oskarshamn Municipality in Sweden.

AECOM selected by AWE plc to deliver key project as part of the U.K.’s nuclear deterrence program

AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated infrastructure firm, and AWE plc. have signed a contract naming AECOM as the delivery partner to AWE for its Nuclear Capability project, a key component of the U.K. government’s nuclear deterrence program.

Entergy completes sale of Vermont Yankee to NorthStar

Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) today completed the sale of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee to subsidiaries of NorthStar Group Services, which will decommission the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station site.

Centrus to carry out decommissioning of US DOE facility in Oak Ridge

Centrus Energy has announced a $15m work authorization from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D;) to prepare the latter’s K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee for demolition.

Northern companies join forces to build radioactive waste containers for Sellafield decommissioning

A group of northern companies have commenced manufacturing containers to store radioactive waste from one of the UK’s most important nuclear decommissioning projects.

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station located on the Pacific coast in Okuma, Japan, has been undergoing a planned decontamination and decommissioning programme since it was damaged by the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami.

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, California

The 2,256MW Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant (NPP) is the only remaining nuclear power plant in operation in California, US. The two-reactor power plant is scheduled for decommissioning in two phases, in 2024 and 2025, after being in service for 40 years.

Entergy to sell Pilgrim, Palisades nuclear power plants to Holtec for decommissioning

Entergy has agreed to sell the 680MW Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts and the 800MW Palisades Power Plant in Michigan to a subsidiary of Holtec International, the company responsible for the decommissioning of the two US nuclear power plants.