decontamination and decommissioning

  • 1Decommissioning —   The process of removing a power plant, apparatus, equipment, building, or facility from operation.   ***   Retirement of a nuclear facility, including decontamination and/or dismantlement.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information… …

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  • 2Nuclear decommissioning — Example of decommissioning work underway. The reactor pressure ves …

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  • 3BNFL — Infobox Company company name = British Nuclear Fuels plc company company type = Public (government owned) foundation = 1971 (as British Nuclear Fuels Limited) location = Daresbury, England key people = area served = industry = products = revenue …

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  • 4Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment — MSRE plant diagram The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten salt reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researching this technology through the 1960s; constructed by 1964, it went critical in 1965 and was… …

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  • 5Omega West Reactor (OWR) — The Omega West Reactor (OWR) was an experimental nuclear reactor located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos NM. OMR was completed in 1956 and primarily used for scientific scale nuclear research until it was fully decommissioned in… …

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  • 6West Valley Reprocessing Plant — is a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at West Valley, New York, USA. It was operated successfully from 1966 72. During this time period, 660,000 gallons of highly radioactive waste accumulated in an underground waste tank. Escalating… …

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  • 8Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code — (MCNP) is a software package for simulating nuclear processes. It is developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is distributed within the United States by the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center in Oak Ridge, TN and… …

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  • 9List of companies in the nuclear sector — Here is a list of all large companies which are active along the nuclear chain, from uranium mining, processing and enrichment, to the actual operating of nuclear power plant and waste processing. Company name Country of origin Category Brief… …

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  • 10Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant — Infobox Nuclear power plant name = Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant caption = Big Rock s containment building country = USA location = Charlevoix, MI coords = coord|45.35892|N|85.19712|W|display=inline owner = operator = Consumers Power built …

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