[ RadSafe ] Russia to pitch for Indian nuclear market duringPutin trip

[Boing, Lawrence E.]

All-

I believe the UKAEA sites at both Harwell and Winfrith are undergoing
major site nuclear delicensing push.

The IAEA recently published a report that addresses examples of site
reuse following decommissioning - an interesting aspect of the
decommissioning process now starting to get more attention -
"Redevelopment of Nuclear Facilities after Decommissioning"  Technical
Reports Series #444.  Its available on the web at www.iaea.org and then
you can follow links to the 'Publications' page.  Also check the UKAEA
website - they have lots of information there as well.  Hope this helps.
 
Larry Boing
lboing at anl.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Sandy Perle
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:35 PM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl; John R Johnson
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Russia to pitch for Indian nuclear market
duringPutin trip

On 23 Jan 2007 at 17:20, John R Johnson wrote:

> Sandy
> 
> Does "All of the UK's working nuclear power stations are located on 
> the coast - sites originally chosen for their remoteness and to 
> guarantee supplies of cooling water." mean that the "pebble bed" 
> reactor at Winfrith is no longer operating. Winfrith is a long way
from "the coast".
> 
> When I worked there in the 1970's that reactor was ( I think) putting 
> power into the grid when it worked, and was talked about as the "next
generation"
> of reactors.

Hi John,

Per the following, I believe that this site is now in decommissioning:

"Winfrith was established by the UKAEA in 1958 as an experimental
reactor research and development site. During its history, eight
research reactors of various types have operated on the site. Winfrith
also had a number of other facilities including fuel manufacture and
examination, plutonium laboratories, nuclear waste treatment and storage
and radioactive laboratories. The last reactor closed in 1995. 
Five of the reactors have been removed from the site; the three
remaining have had fuel removed and are in various stages of
decommissioning. Parts of the Winfrith site have been delicensed and it
is expected that the remaining decommissioning will be completed by
2020."
Regards,
Sandy

Sandy Perle
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