Sentences with phrase «decommissioning site»

Last year managers agreed to a road map for decommissioning the site over the next 30 to 40 years that calls for removing melted nuclear fuel masses and demolishing the plant's four reactor halls at a cost that could top $ 9 billion.
A huge advantage of carrying out nuclear - related research at Manchester is the university's proximity to Calder Hall and Sellafield — a nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site, and home to the United Kingdom's National Nuclear Laboratory Central Laboratory.
Curtin, a 57 - year - old housewife, said she decided at the last minute to vote Labour despite deep reservations about Corbyn, who she felt was only interested in Copeland «because he wants to shut the factory», the Sellafield nuclear decommissioning site.
PoliticsHome speaks to former Labour MP Jamie Reed about his new role as Head of Development & Community Relations at Sellafield Ltd, the nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site in Cumbria.
Peter C, 4:36 pm; Sorry, but I think that you will find when these monstrosities are redundant, rotting and polluting the environment (as if they aren't already), the government of the day will have absolutely no powers whatsoever to make the owners / landowners decommission the sites responsibily.
The respondent brought a public procurement claim against the appellant NDA, in connection with its unsuccessful bid for a contract for services to decommission sites previously used for nuclear generation.

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Camp Hero, a decommissioned base at the end of Long Island, was the site of rumored genetic and other experiments in the 1960s - 1980s.
For the past 25 years, Miller has traveled all across the US, photographing decommissioned NASA, Air Force, Army and commercial space launch and test sites.
The Galeville Military Airport was decommissioned in 1994 when the US Department of Defense decided that the site was no longer needed.
The biggest of the three large sites is the Navy Yard, a decommissioned military base that sprawls over some 1,200 city - owned acres along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia.
Clean Harbors provides comprehensive on - site Remediation Services for a plant or facility expansion, an idled facility or a decommissioned process.
New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed expanding the Long Island Pine Barrens by 800 acres around the decommissioned Shoreham nuclear power plant, but did not include saving a site in Mastic where a developer wants to build a solar farm.
Walsh's campaign has emphasized completing such «unfinished business» as decommissioning the crumbling Binnewater Dam and final site plan review and approval for the Williams Lake Project.
«We will now focus on safely decommissioning the plant, working with our employees to mitigate the impact of redundancy on them and their families and partnering with all interested stakeholders on the future regional economic development of the Lynemouth site.
A core team of around 60 employees will remain on site beyond the closure of all operations to work on decommissioning, remediation and regional economic development.
It will cost at least # 73 billion to decommission the UK's first - generation civil nuclear sites and run the remaining operating ones, MPs have claimed.
By evaluating site reuse options, identifying new local economic development and workforce retraining opportunities, and advocating for appropriate decommissioning timelines, the task force seeks to assist the region overall for a prosperous and sustainable future during and after the decommissioning of the facility.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has already confirmed it will make its sites available for developers wanting to build a new generation of nuclear power stations.
Developer Charles E. Hoffman of Halfmoon paid approximately $ 22,500 for the parcels even though an appraiser hired by the town estimated the value of the properties — which were decommissioned water - supply sites — at more than $ 250,000.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is currently responsible for the clean - up and decommissioning process at the Fukushima Daiichi site and in the surrounding exclusion zone.
Initial sites could be found at national laboratory locations, military bases or decommissioned nuclear plants if local communities agreed, the report says.
But a spokesman for Dounreay, Ian Shepherd, stresses that comprehensive monitoring of the site started last autumn as part of a multimillion pound programme to decommission two fast reactors and their associated plants.
Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.
This includes working with and developing alternate fuels like recycled uranium, mixed oxide and thorium, as well as Tier 1 contracts for the management and decommissioning of nuclear sites in the United States and Canada.
The Chalk River site is the home of the remaining operating nuclear reactor, nuclear operations to support medical isotope production, a diverse science and technology group, and an organization focused on environmental remediation and decommissioning.
NIA member companies have significant expertise in nuclear decommissioning and clean - up, with 17 nuclear sites in the UK currently being managed through the process.
Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.
«Comments and Recommendations Submitted to Environmental Assessment Panel Reviewing Decommissioning Proposals for the Elliot Lake Uranium Mine Tailings Management Areas» is a ten point analysis of the closure plans for the large uranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the Decommissioning.
CANADA «Comments and Recommendations Submitted to Environmental Assessment Panel Reviewing Decommissioning Proposals for the Elliot Lake Uranium Mine Tailings Management Areas» is a ten point analysis of the closure plans for the large uranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the Decommissioning.
The site is now being decommissioned.
Response: Ideally, SMRs should be readily able to slot into brownfield sites in place of decommissioned coal - fired plants, the units of which are seldom very large.
Thanks to their persistent grassroots efforts — abetted by a confluence of factors, including changing priorities in the National Park Service, the decommissioning of military sites across the U.S., and a continuing debate over the future of Alcatraz Island — the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was established on October 27, 1972.
Visit the historic Battery Chamberlin, where you can see a 97,000 - pound cannon of the type originally emplaced at this decommissioned military site, while you make your way toward the Golden Gate Bridge.
, Punta Negra and Grampin (where you can see the occasional Black - tip sharks and some of the best coral formations in the area), Sleeping Sharks Cave (made famous by Jacques Cousteau and Ramon Bravo), the shipwrecks C55 and C58 (decommissioned Second World War gun boats) and many more sites to whet your appetite for adventure!
This fall, For - Site is blanketing a decommissioned chapel in Fort Mason with prayer rugs designed by 36 contemporary artists, including Mr. Ai, Diana Al - Hadid, Mona Hatoum and Cornelia Parker.
With a 53 foot long, decommissioned wind turbine blade, paint, glitter, and his own vision for the desert valley, Gibson has created ALIVE, a site - specific installation that he could not make in New York and one that manages to avoid the hackneyed and cliché notions of the desert.
While there are no global warming emissions associated with operating wind turbines, there are emissions associated with other stages of a wind turbine's life - cycle, including materials production, materials transportation, on - site construction and assembly, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning and dismantlement.
Comments: On April 12, 2017, BSEE issued standard operating procedures on how decommissioning liabilities for wells, platforms / facilities, and pipelines located in Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf and site clearance verification are estimated, recorded, and disseminated.
This document examines the potential environmental impacts related to renewable energy development on the OCS for each phase of development (technology testing, site characterization, construction, operation, and decommissioning).
Therefore, policymakers and water managers that are siting new dams or decommissioning old ones should weigh the multiple services that reservoirs provide against their GHG - related costs in planning to either construct or decommission a dam.
Two prototypes of the RBMK light water graphite - moderated reactors operated at the site from the 1960s until the end of the 1980s, and are now being decommissioned.
I long for the day when windmill manufacturers and deployers get held to account for environmental destruction and are forced to pay to decommissions and return their sites to «green field»
I am now moving to Magnox Ltd, at Berkeley site to get experience in Project Engineering and where I can see a different phase of decommissioning underway.
On - site oversight, sampling and documentation support for decommissioning and closure of a multi-facility aerospace complex following regulatory requirements and corporate EHS protocols.
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One selling point: Tough winters and many potholes make the site a better proxy for the imperfect world of driving than California's decommissioned Navy base in Concord.
Carriers can place five or six small - cell sites around an existing macro site, giving them enough leverage to force rent concessions by threatening to decommission the macro site, he notes, in conjunction with early termination clauses.
Relocation services we provide include: • Program assessments and consulting • Daily and project moves • Schedule and cost containment • Supplier selection and governance • Employee, space and data management • Tactical space planning • Furniture and warehouse management • Stakeholder coordination • Site decommissioning and asset disposition • Timely occupancy planning information
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