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Blogposts tagged 'Nuclear Power Plants'

Greenpeace response to the Strategic Siting Assessment consultation

Publication date:  14 November, 2008
Greenpeace's response to the Consultation on the Strategic Siting Assessment Process and Siting Criteria for New Nuclear Power Stations in the UK and related documents, including a study of the environmental and sustainability effects of the proposed siting criteria ('the environmental study'), and a Habitats Regulations Assessment Screening Report.
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Article tagged as: consultations, new nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear power plants

British Nuclear Group court case - transcript and sentence

Publication date:  5 April, 2007
On 16th October 2006, British Nuclear Group, the operator of the massive Sellafield nuclear complex, was in the Crown Court in Carlisle to face sentencing over an accident that led to the shut-down of the THORP spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.

The case, brought by the Health and Safety Executive (North West) centred on the events that led up to 83,000 litres of highly radioactive dissolved spent fuel leaking into the area beneath a tank in the reprocessing facility.
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Article tagged as: BNG, nuclear accidents, nuclear power, nuclear power plants, reports, sellafield

The potential for terrorist strikes on nuclear facilities

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Publication date: January 2003

Summary

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Article tagged as: nuclear power plants, reports, sizewell, terrorist attack

BNFL at a glance

Publication date:  22 March, 2007

Where science is in a coma

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Article tagged as: BNFL, nuclear power, nuclear power plants, reprocessing

Sellafield - a local view

Publication date:  31 May, 2000

Martin Forwood

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The need for transports

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

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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Article tagged as: nuclear fuel, nuclear power plants, reports, sellafield

Sellafield: The safety crisis

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:

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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Article tagged as: nuclear power, nuclear power plants, nuclear waste, reports, sellafield
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