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Fusion energy: 3D software helps engineers develop next stage
Fusion power technology is mankind's biggest engineering challenge. Leading scientists, engineers and planners are working towards the solution significantly aided by the availability of 3D model based...
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Remote handling of electrical connections made easier
Stäubli has introduced a new electrical connector to its range specifically configured for handling by remote control manipulators. A recent addition to the Stäubli range of connectors is the RVX 25...
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Solving the lightning strike problem at nuclear power plant
Lightning solution keeps the Browns Ferry Nuclear plant's off-gas stack strike-free reducing lightning strikes by 80 per cent within a 500metre radius. Del Williams reports.Like all power generation...
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Safely accelerating shutdown while maximising revenues
There have been many advances in reactor shutdown techniques and average outage times had fallen by 64 per cent to around 40 days (2007). Stephen Bell reports.The energy and power generation markets...
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Pile fuel storage pond decommissioned
Babcock has successfully completed a project to assist Sellafield Ltd in the decommissioning of the Pile Fuel Storage Pond facility at the Cumbria site, an impressive 10 months ahead of schedule....
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The search for potential sites for a final storage site for radioactive waste is going forward in Switzerland. In the course of these efforts, DMT GmbH & Co. KG has concluded two-dimensional, deep...
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Waste interim storage: the cost efficiency challenge
In the on-going search for the optimum solution for interim storage of radioactive waste. Val Drake, looks at the factors to take into account in reviewing the alternatives, and considers whether one...
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Phase two of Sellafield project contracted
The Babcock-Bechtel joint venture Bechtel Babcock Nuclear Solutions (BBNS) has been contracted by Sellafield Ltd to move into phase two of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo Retrieval Project, Silo Doors...
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The new power mix in Germany: how will it work
Nigel Blackaby discusses how Germany will fare without a new generation of nuclear power plants and the phasing out of the existing fleet, coupled with growing opposition to coal-fired generation, and...
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Tackling challenging nuclear clean-up projects
Bo Wier looks at the challenges involved to complete one of the world's deepest nuclear clean-ups, and at some of the innovative approaches being deployed to accelerate the programme whilst minimising...
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Metal reactor decommissioning
Dealing with the coolant when decommissioning liquid metal cooled reactors, is a demanding and hazardous challenge. Jason Casper looks at how this may be addressed to complete the timely...
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Developing nuclear skills
Two leading organisations for the nuclear industry in the UK, the National Skills Academy for Nuclear and the National Nuclear Laboratory have committed to working collaboratively on the development of...
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High efficiency, high reliability cooling water pumps
Specially designed for pumping large quantities of critical cooling water within fossil and nuclear power generation applications, the CUP-CVP, concrete volute pump, from ClydeUnion Pumps, an SPX...
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Double Drax contract win for Capula
Imtech UK’s Capula business division has won two contracts with Shepherd Engineering Services (SES) for work at the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire.As part of the first contract, Capula, which...
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Instrument protection system targets nuclear industry
Systems integration specialist Hima-Sella is to develop and provide a two-tier, fail-safe Instrument Protection System (IPS), for use in the nuclear industry, with the primary level of protection...
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Nuclear plant pile chimney opened for first time in over 17 years
The Windscale chimneys have been a major part of the UK's Sellafield skyline since the 1940s and work on decommissioning the last remaining chimney is now progressing in earnest.The chimney has been...
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Vacuum equipment plays a key role uranium enrichment
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum has received a double-digit million Euro order for vacuum technology from a global manufacturer of uranium centrifuges for nuclear power facilities.Oerlikon Leybold’s vacuum...
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Nuclear industry focuses on Generation III technology and small modular reactors
Generation III power technology and advances in small modular reactors are driving developments in the nuclear power generation market. Sean Ottewell reports.Rolls-Royce is to collaborate with Rosatom...
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Camera systems for the nuclear industry
Resolve Optics Ltd has supplied a number of non-browning zoom lens to Custom Cameras Ltd (Wells, UK) to enable the company to supply fully integrated radiation tolerant camera systems for monitoring...
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Contaminated equipment recovered from nuclear fuel storage pond
Sellafield Ltd removes 100 tonnes of contaminated equipment from world’s biggest open-air nuclear storeNuclear experts at Sellafield in the UK have successfully removed one hundred tonnes of...
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