Decommission

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Eskom Launches Tender to ‘Repurpose’ Coal Plants with Low-Carbon Growth Tech

The debt-saddled South African utility has issued an expression of interest to seek proposals on how to refurbish three fossil fuel power plants to be decommiss…

Nuclear Power Plant

Ansaldo Nuclear Deploys Custom Robot for Nuclear Decommissioning Project

The project aims to retrieve around 860 tonnes of radioactive waste from the Caorso Nuclear power plant.

Coal Trade

Decommissioning coal – an opportunity for energy storage?

Coal has underpinned power generation for more than a century as a cheap, reliable and well understood technology, writes IHS Markit analyst George Hilton.

Nuclear Power Plant

Ansaldo Nuclear Provides Robot for Caorso Decommissioning

Ansaldo Nuclear has designed and supplied a robot for the removal of 2000 drums of radioactive waste stored in hard-to-access areas within two temporary storage…

Nuclear Power Plant

KHNP to Support Canadian Decommissioning Projects

In a 7 April statement, KHNP said Kinectrics highly appreciated the technology KHNP used to replace the pressure tubes and improve the facilities of unit 1 of t…

Waikato And Upper North Island Voltage Management

The decommissioning of thermal generation plants in Otahuhu, Southdown and Huntly, alongside the retirement of the Huntley coal generation plant in 2022 will ca…

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA Reviews Water Storage at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

The IAEA and the Japanese Government have been cooperating extensively over the past decade to deal with the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, in are…

Nuclear Technology

Engineers Publish New Research on Meltdown Materials

Engineers at the UK's University of Sheffield have developed materials that they say could be used to help decommission the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear powe…

Nuclear Power Plant

CNL Secures Overseas Decommissioning Contract

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) is to take part in the decommissioning of a prototype boiling water reactor (BWR) in Lingen, Germany under a subcontract awa…

Nuclear Fuel

Scientists Exploring How Nuclear Waste from Berkeley will be Safely Stored

Work has begun on removing nuclear waste from Berkeley power station, 30 years after it was decommissioned. The disused Magnox generator, situated on the banks …

Nuclear Power Plant

German Reactor Enters Decommissioning

Unit 2 of Germany's Philippsburg nuclear power plant was disconnected from the grid at 6.55pm on 31 December, as planned, marking the end of 35 years of operati…

Thermal Plant

The Average Efficiency of Thermal Power Has Reached 38.1% in Iran

After negotiations with East Asian firms in 2018 to attract investment to decommission decrepit power plants failed due to the US sanctions, the government prop…

Nuclear Decommissioning & Waste Management Summit 2020

The two day event will bring together senior executives from the key industry stakeholders from Energy Providers, Plant Owners & Operators, Industry Consultants…

Nuclear Power Plant

Old Scottish Power Station Caught Leaking Specs of Nuclear Dust

A nice little British nuclear catastrophe has been uncovered in Scotland, where the complex and millennia-long process of decommissioning the Dounreay facility …

Nuclear Technology

EDF, Veolia Team up to Decommission Graphite Reactors

A joint venture for the decommissioning of reactors that use graphite technology has been established by France's EDF and Veolia. Graphitech will seek contracts…