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Nuclear Transports

Barrow in Furness became a port because it has a deep water channel. The building of war ships has been a major industry in the town since the middle of the 19th century. Today Barrow is best known as the place where BAE Systems build Trident nukiller submarines. The company is also building the Astute-class submarines. What is less well know is that the ships which transport nukiller waste around the globe go out of the port of Barrow. Neither do most people realise just what else goes on in the town. Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited, a subsidiary of International Nuclear Services, is based at Barrow. The company website boast that it is ‘the world’s most experienced shipper of nuclear cargoes’. Barrow is also the home port for James Fisher & Sons, which works for the military, and built its first ship suitable for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel in the 1960s. The company also provides Nukiller equipment and services.

Radiation Free Lakeland 14th May 2020 read more »

Waste Transport

The return transport of vitrified waste from the reprocessing plant in Sellafield to the interim storage facility in Biblis planned for this spring is suspended. As the police authorities responsible for accompanying and carrying out the transport have stated, the police operation is currently not responsible with regard to the current “spread of corona” and therefore cannot be carried out in spring as planned. The companies and institutions involved in the repatriation will agree on a new deadline for the repatriation in due course.

GNS 13th March 2020 read more »

International Nuclear Services

One of Britain’s top nuclear law experts has been appointed as a judge on an international tribunal. Khalil Bukhari, International Nuclear Services’ Group general counsel, was proposed for a position on the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal by the Government. The position has now been confirmed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. INS is part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority group and is a major transporter of nuclear materials. Its customers include the UK’s Ministry of Defence, the USA’s Department of Energy, EDF Energy and Japanese utility companies. Mr Bukhari is now one of seven judges on the tribunal, which resolves disputes concerning liability over nuclear incidents. He said: “This appointment is recognition of INS’s expertise as the world’s leading transporter of nuclear materials and just one example of the world-leading nuclear expertise within the NDA group.”

In Cumbria 6th Feb 2020 read more »

Dounreay Plutonium Transfers

The Dounreay stock of civil separated plutonium is now safely stored at Sellafield following completion of a phased transfer programme involving a range of organisations. This means that all significant UK stocks of this material are now held at Sellafield – the centre of excellence for plutonium management. The safe and secure management of civil separated plutonium is a priority for the UK government and an important part of the NDA’s strategy. This is a major step forward in decommissioning and cleaning-up the Dounreay site in Caithness, the UK’s former centre of fast reactor research and development.

NDA 23rd Dec 2019 read more »

Nuclear Transport

It’s a return from the Pacific-Egret. This British freighter specialized in the transportation of nuclear materials has not come to Cherbourg since 2017. It is expected in the coming hours but the biggest secret is kept on the day, time and content. The Pacific Egret is an English boat specializing in the transportation of nuclear materials. He left tonight the north-west coast of England and the English nuclear site Sellafield, to reach Cherbourg; according to information relayed this November 25 on Twitter, by the local representative of Greenpeace, Yannick Rousselet.

France Info 25th Nov 2019 read more »

Nuclear Transport

As part of our work to support the amendments to the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations (CDG) we have published our updated guidance PDF. The updated guidance is non-statutory but it will be a useful tool to inform and assist dutyholders involved in the transport of Class 7 goods (radioactive material), to comply with the amended requirements of CDG. The amendments to the CDG Regulations link to external website have been made to implement the Euratom Basic Safety Standards Directive 2013 requirements for emergency preparedness and response, and the notification of certain incidents when transporting Class 7 goods (radioactive material).

ONR 22nd Oct 2019 read more »

Nuclear Transports

Anti-nuclear campaigners have welcomed news the last cargo of radioactive waste from Wylfa power station on Anglesey has been transported through Cheshire. The train, which carried the waste in steel flasks, regularly made its way through the county en route to the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria. It is has been running since the mid 1960s but has come to an end because the Wylfa nuclear power station has been decommissioned. In a statement, the Close Capenhurst group, whose main aim is to shut the Urenco-owned uranium enrichment plant at Capenhurst , said: “Concerning the last radioactive fuel rods transported by rail from Wylfa. “While we welcome the end of highly radioactive used fuel rods being transported from Wylfa via Chester and Crewe to Sellafield, we are still concerned about all the other nukiller fuel rods which are transported by DRS (Direct Rail Services) to Sellafield via nearby Crewe. “We will continue to campaign upon this issue, together with the movement of Uranium Hexafluoride (Hex) to and from Capenhurst by road while continuing to support the demand of PAWB – People Against Wylfa-B that No New Atomic Power Plant be built on Anglesey.”

Cheshire Live 26th Sept 2019 read more »

Nuclear Transports

An Egremont-based nuclear firm has stepped in to help organisers of this weekend’s town’s crab fair at the 11th hour. James Fisher Nuclear was approached by organisers after one of the sponsors of tonight’s Dancing in the Street stage, had to pull out.

Carlisle News & Star 20th Sept 2019 read more »

Barrow

Conventional safety claims by Barrow’s nuclear shipping terminal found to be all at sea. In press statements made yesterday (17th September) by the two principal users/occupants of the Ramsden Dock nuclear shipping terminal – INS (International Nuclear Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and managers of nuclear transport contracts) and PNTL (Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited who operate the ships on behalf of INS – claim that the maritime terminal at Barrow-in-Furness has successfully completed 5,555 days ‘without a lost time accident’. The claim (see also https://www.in-cumbria.com/news/17908079.safety-milestone-nuclear-terminal-staff/ apparently calculated over 15 years, 3 months and 17 days of operation and covering non-radiological ‘safety at the terminal , in our offices, on board the vessels or wherever our colleagues are across the world …’ are, from memory, patently wrong and grossly misleading’ said Martin Forwood who, as Campaign Coordinator of local anti-nuclear group CORE, has routinely attended the Ramsden Dock Terminal Stakeholder Group (RDTSG) meetings for decades.

CORE 18th Sept 2019 read more »

Barrow

Barrow’s nuclear marine terminal has passed another milestone in its safety record. The facility, owned and run by International Nuclear Services, has successfully completed 5,555 days without a lost-time accident. That figures takes the terminal to 15 years, three months and 17 days without an incident that has led to a member of staff needing to take time off work.

In Cumbria 17th Sept 2019 read more »

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