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plans to bring SMRs to West Cumbria, setting out a 10-year plan to bring at least one SMR in by 2030, with the potential for more to be created by 2033. The new firm has already applied for funding to create the new power station from the government and it hopes it will have Whitehall commitment the end of this year, with funding talks set to take place in early 2023. The detailed manufacturing design, site surveys and generic design assessments for the SMR site have already started, and the main construction and commissioning of the site will start in 2026. “Nuclear is a core part of our identity and
heritage in West Cumbria, and we have a huge opportunity now through the deployment of the Rolls Royce SMR,” Foster noted. “It’s not only about the jobs and supply chains needed to build and run it. It’s also about the new investments and industry sectors we could attract to the region, with an energy surplus to offer. The critical pieces already exist, such as land that could be suitable, interest from investors, and of course the modular solution from Rolls Royce SMR. Our job at Solway is to pull it all together – and we’ll be working closely with our community, who have an enduring stake in both its development and its decades of operation.” Rolls-Royce SMR CEO Tom Samson said: “We
have prioritised a number of locations across England and Wales, including land close to the Sellafield Site, with the potential to deploy the first in a fleet of Rolls-Royce SMR power stations. By utilising land owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in West Cumbria and partnering with Solway, we put ourselves in the strongest possible position to bring new nuclear on stream as close to 2030 as possible.” Each Rolls-Royce SMR will be factory built and capable of generating 470 MW of electricity.
Sweden New radwaste storage facility opens A new Swedish interim storage facility for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste has begun operating in Studsvik near Nyköping. The facility will initially be used for the
storage of waste from the decommissioning of the Ågesta NPP near Stockholm and the R2 research reactor in Studsvik. The facility measures about 27 metres by 90
metres, is 20 metres high with a capacity of up to 10,000 cubic metres. It will be used pending expansion of the final repository in Forsmark. It took two years to build the warehouse
at a cost of SEK141m (US$13m), completed on schedule and some SEK30 under budget. After extensive preliminary studies
of intermediate layers in Sweden and internationally, Svafo concluded that a solid, but structurally simple construction in partially prefabricated reinforced concrete best served the purpose. Meticulous planning of all steps in the construction and appropriate forms of contract with various suppliers ensured safety and efficiency. The construction had to meet strict
regulations from the Land and Environmental Court and the Radiation Safety Authority. In the building permit from the municipality of Nyköping, there were additional rules and Svafo also had its own high requirements for implementation. The intermediate repository is an important
for disposal of the waste from the dismantling of the R2 in Studsvik, where research was conducted from 1960 to 2005, and the Ågestaverket outside Stockholm, Sweden’s first commercial NPP that operated until 1974. The demolition material is source-sorted so that non-radioactive material can be recycled while radioactive material is packed for interim storage and later final disposal. ■
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CLEAN-UP AN INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC Energy Agency Task Force – set up last year to review the safety of the implementation of Japan’s Basic Policy to handle the treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station – has carried out a new mission to review updated technical plans for the water discharge.
FRANCE’S ORANO HAS signed an engineering support contract with Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and its Fukushima Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company subsidiary for the design of a high-activity facility for small scale retrieval of nuclear fuel debris from Fukushima Daiichi NPP.
HYDROGEN AN EDF LED consortium to utilise innovative technology which uses nuclear generated heat and electricity to create hydrogen for asphalt and cement sites, has won government backing. The Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy has awarded the Bay Hydrogen Hub – Hydrogen4Hanson project, in Lancashire, almost GB£400,000 in funding for a feasibility study recently.
THE US DEPARTMENT of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy and the Office of Nuclear Energy have already started teaming up with utilities to support four hydrogen demonstration projects at NPPs including Nine Mile Point, Davis–Besse, Prairie Island and Palo Verde.
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