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The need for transports

Last edited 28 May 2000 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
22 March, 2007

Report 2 (135k)

Publication date: May 2000

Summary
After 40 years of nuclear power the realities of managing the spent fuel from power station reactors have to be faced. There are 2 basic options for the industry, the first being to store and then directly dispose of the fuel (providing a nuclear dump is available) The second is to send it to Sellafield for reprocessing ...

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Article tagged as: nuclear power, nuclear power plants, nuclear transports, nuclear waste, sellafield, storage

Conventional nuclear fuel for reactors

Last edited 28 May 2000 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
28 May, 2000

Nuclear fuel is fabricated from natural uranium imported from overseas by BNFL who operate a fuel fabrication plant at Springfields near Preston and a uranium enrichment plant at Capenhurst in Cheshire. Natural uranium is composed largely of two elements Uranium 235 (U-235) and Uranium 238 (U-238). Whilst this is suitable for making fuel for Britain's ageing Magnox reactors, it has to be enriched before it can made into fuel for the newer advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs).

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Sellafield: The safety crisis

Last edited 21 February 2000 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
28 February, 2000

Different perspectives

Publication date: February 2000

Summary
A summary of statements from the BNFL Environment, Health & Safety Report 1998/99, "Responsible for safety and care for the environment", and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) Investigation of Sellafield (6-27 September 1999), published February 2000.

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The storage of Liquid High Level Waste at Sellafield:

Last edited 17 February 2000 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
28 February, 2000

The Advisory Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (ACSNI) recommended in 1992 that Highly Active Liquid (HAL) waste should be vitrified (incorporated into glass blocks) as soon as reasonably practicable. BNFL told NII in 1995 that it aimed to reduce HAL stocks to a buffer volume by about 2015...

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