International

U.S. engineering and infrastructure company AECOM has been awarded a contract to evaluate potential locations for Australia’s National Radioactive Waste Management Facility, the federal Department of Industry, Innovation, and Science said Friday. The agency did not cite the value or length of the contract in a press release. A spokesman for AECOM could not immediately […]

The federal government wants the two men who stole more than $4 million while conducting work for the Department of Energy’s MOX project at the Savannah River Site to fork over enough money and assets to cover the total sum. In a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court for South Carolina, U.S. Attorney Beth […]

French nuclear fuel cycle company New AREVA officially has a new name as of Tuesday: Orano. Orano is the result of a corporate restructuring AREVA initiated in 2016 that late last year resulted in the sale of the company’s nuclear power business to French utility EDF and other entities. What was left was almost entirely […]

French nuclear fuel cycle company New AREVA officially has a new name as of Tuesday: Orano. Orano is the result of a corporate restructuring AREVA initiated in 2016 that late last year resulted in the sale of the company’s nuclear power business to French utility EDF and other entities. What was left was almost entirely […]

The first borehole has been fully drilled in Canada’s search for a location to dispose of radioactive spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear reactors, according to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). Drilling began on Nov. 6, 2017, and wrapped up on Jan. 16 at the site roughly 22 miles west of the township of […]

French nuclear company New AREVA officially has a new name as of Tuesday: Orano. Orano is the result of a corporate restructuring AREVA initiated in 2016 that late last year resulted in French utility EDF buying the majority stake of the company’s nuclear power business. What was left was almost entirely held by New AREVA, […]

Sweden’s Radiation Safety Authority (SSSM) on Tuesday said it had recommended government approval of license applications from the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. (SKB) for construction and operation of spent reactor fuel encapsulation and permanent disposal facilities. “The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority assesses that SKB has the potential to ensure safe management and […]

The first borehole has been fully drilled in Canada’s search for a location to dispose of radioactive spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear reactors, according to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). Drilling began on Nov. 6, 2017, and wrapped up on Jan. 16 at the site roughly 22 miles west of the township of […]

The Energy Department could in late February issue its final request for proposals for construction of the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., according to recently released presolicitation documents. The agency expects prospective bidders will have 30 calendar days from the date of the final RFP […]

The Energy Department could issue its final request for proposals in late February for construction of the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., according to recently released presolicitation documents. The agency expects prospective bidders will have 30 calendar days from the date of the final RFP […]

The Hanford Site has five major procurements in the pipeline between now and fiscal 2020, according to an announcement published Jan. 3 by the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC). Three of the five solicitations could extend for up to 10 years; a fourth for up to seven years; and the length […]

Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), waste storage tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state, received 89 percent of its available fee for fiscal 2017, the Department of Energy noted in a recently issued performance scorecard. WRPS earned $11.89 million of the available $13.35 million for the budget year ended Sept. 30, 2017. […]

AREVA said Tuesday it anticipates sealing an agreement this year to provide technology for a new used nuclear fuel treatment and recycling plant in China. Executives from New AREVA and the China National Nuclear Corp. signed a “memorandum of commercial agreement” for the facility alongside a meeting in Beijing of French President Emmanuel Macron and […]

AREVA said Tuesday it anticipates sealing an agreement this year to provide technology for a new used nuclear fuel treatment and recycling plant in China. Executives from New AREVA and the China National Nuclear Corp. signed a “memorandum of commercial agreement” for the facility alongside a meeting in Beijing of French President Emmanuel Macron and […]

Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), waste storage tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state, received 89 percent of its available fee for fiscal 2017, the Department of Energy noted in a recently issued performance scorecard. WRPS earned $11.89 million of the available $13.35 million for the budget year ended Sept. 30, 2017. […]

The Energy Department this week published a long-awaited environmental review that paves the way for the agency to accept more than 450 casks of spent nuclear fuel from Germany for processing and storage at the agency’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. The spent fuel contains U.S.-origin highly enriched uranium, which was shipped to Germany […]

The Energy Department on Wednesday published a long-awaited environmental review that paves the way for the agency to accept more than 450 casks of spent nuclear fuel from Germany for processing and storage at the agency’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. The spent fuel contains U.S.-origin highly enriched uranium, which was shipped to Germany […]

The Port Hope Project in Ontario, Canada, has begun moving radioactively contaminated soil from a decades-old storage facility in the municipality into a new above-ground engineered mound for long-term disposal. The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) completed the first cell of the new disposal facility in late November and began trucking in waste from the […]

The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) in Ontario has begun moving radioactively contaminated soil from a decades-old storage facility into a new above-ground engineered mound for long-term disposal. The agency completed the first cell of the new disposal facility in late November and began trucking in waste from the nearby Welcome Waste Management Facility on […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is weighing a request from the Omaha Public Power District that would exempt the utility from certain emergency planning requirements for the recently retired Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska. The Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) says now that Fort Calhoun is permanently shut down and defueled it poses less risk […]

Canadian agencies announced on Nov. 24 that milestones in development of the Near Surface Disposal Facility for low-level radioactive waste in Ontario were being pushed back. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is updating its draft environmental impact statement for the planned site following a public comment period that ended on Aug. 16, according to a notice from […]

Testing and equipment installation continues for the giant metal arch that covers Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said Wednesday. The arch, officially known as the New Safe Confinement, was put into place nearly one year ago over the reactor facility destroyed in […]

International Isotopes on Tuesday reported that sales grew by nearly $500,000 in the third quarter of 2017, but noted that its net loss also rose by over $1 million. Sales totaled $1.9 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30, up 35 percent from just over $1.4 million in the same period of 2016, according to […]

Workers at the United Kingdom’s Sellafield site have started slowly bringing down a 61-meter-tall chimney that provided ventilation for nuclear material reprocessing operations. Demolition began last month and is expected to be completed by 2020, according to a press release from the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). The 1950s-era chimney, which stands on the 61-meter […]

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) on Friday said it had begun collecting core samples from one potential deep geologic repository site in Ontario for spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear reactors. Drilling is underway in a rock formation roughly 22 miles west of the township of Ignace, according to an NWMO announcement. This is […]

The Wood Group and AREVA Projets SAS said Wednesday they had partnered to win a contract to extract 50 metric tons of radioactive waste from a French nuclear facility and prepare it for storage. The low- and medium-level, short-lived waste is magnesium cladding generated by processing of natural uranium-graphite-gas fuels at three former reactors at […]

The government of the United Kingdom this week largely kept mum regarding reports that it might directly take over decommissioning of its shuttered Magnox nuclear sites. Industry sources told the Financial Times it appeared probable that the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) would establish a subsidiary to manage cleanup of the 10 Magnox nuclear power […]

The government of the United Kingdom on Monday largely stayed mum regarding a report that it might directly take over decommissioning of its shuttered Magnox nuclear sites. Industry sources told the Financial Times that it appeared probable that the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority would establish a subsidiary to manage cleanup of the 10 Magnox power […]

Iran committed multiple violations of a 2015 nuclear nonproliferation agreement intended to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon, President Donald Trump said Friday. Breaches of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) included Iran twice exceeding the amount of heavy water it is allowed to possess under the deal, according to Trump. Heavy […]

Taxpayers in the United Kingdom are on the hook for up to £122 million in costs associated with a botched contract for decommissioning of the nation’s Magnox nuclear facilities, the U.K. National Audit Office said in a blistering report Wednesday. The government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced in March that the £6.1 billion cleanup contract awarded in 2014 […]