Sentences with phrase «nuclear decommissioning site»

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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.

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.

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.

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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 Labonuclear - 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 Labonuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site, and home to the United Kingdom's National Nuclear Laboratory Central LaboNuclear Laboratory Central Laboratory.

Initial sites could be found at national laboratory locations, military bases or decommissioned nuclear plants if local communities agreed, the report says.

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.

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.

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.