Nuclear Power
Fig. 1. All three boiling water reactors at Oskarshamn were designed and built by Asea-Atom.
Decommissioning dominates
Investments in the nuclear power industry are dominated by decommissioning, refuelling and safety projects, reports Eugene McCarthy.
Según Eugene McCarthy, las inversiones en la industria de la energía nuclear se encuentra dominada por los proyectos de desactivación, de reabastecimiento y seguridad.
Investitionen in die Kernkraftbranche zielen hauptsächlich auf Stilllegung, Einladung von Brennstoff und Sicherheit ab, so Eugene McCarthy.
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he UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has selected the Cavendish Fluor Partnership as the preferred bidder in the
competition to take ownership of Magnox and Research Sites Restoration Limited (RSRL), the site license companies that manage and operate 12 UK nuclear sites. It is anticipated that this contract will provide savings in excess of US$1.6 billion (£1 billion) in the decommissioning programme for the 12 sites. Cavendish Fluor Partnership will begin
a five-month contract transition phase following a 10-day standstill period. Once transition is complete, it will become the new parent body organisation and take ownership of Magnox and RSRL.
Magnox is responsible for decommissioning 10 of its reactor sites, located in England, Scotland and Wales, which were the first generation of civil nuclear power plants in the UK built during the 1950s and 1960s. RSRL is responsible for decommissioning two pioneering nuclear research centres at Harwell and Winfrith. In other good news for Fluor,
NuScale Power – a company in which it is majority investor – has signed an agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE) for funding that will support the development, licensing and commercialisation of its nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) technology. Te DOE will provide up to US$217 million (£134 million) in matching funds
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