In a first for the UK nuclear industry, Magnox has announced that Bradwell Site, in Essex, has entered a safe state known as ‘care and maintenance’. To achieve this, and gain regulatory approval, both of the Essex nuclear power station’s reactor buildings have been defuelled, decommissioned and covered in weatherproof cladding to create ‘safestores’ – with all intermediate level waste (ILW) packaged and safely stored on site. This is the first Magnox site to make its transition into care and maintenance (C&M) and represents a significant milestone along the decommissioning journey towards eventual final site clearance and cleaning up the legacy from the earliest days of the UK’s nuclear industry. Bradwell has been a pathfinder site, delivering hazard reduction safer and sooner, making many first-of-a-kind innovations and developing innovative approaches to decommissioning. For example, the equipment and techniques developed to retrieve, condition and package ILW are now being used to progress decommissioning and hazard reduction work at other Magnox sites.
NDA 29th Nov 2018 read more »
In a first for the UK nuclear industry, Magnox has announced that the Bradwell site in Essex, England has entered care and maintenance (C&M). Both of the nuclear power plant’s reactor buildings have been defuelled, decommissioned and covered in weatherproof cladding to create ‘safestores’ – with all intermediate level waste (ILW) packaged and safely stored on site.
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