Fit for Purpose Remote Technology Decommissioning Solutions - 18630
- Cavendish Nuclear Ltd (United Kingdom)
- Fluor Corporation, Brownsville, Kentucky (United States)
The Magnox Decommissioning Project is actively progressing clean-up and decommissioning of 12 reactor sites across England, Scotland and Wales. Funded and directed by the United Kingdom's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and managed by the Cavendish Fluor Partnership (CFP), the Magnox Decommissioning Project introduces a wide range of radiological and industrial hazards warranting deployment of remote technologies to safely de-inventory, decontaminate and decommission a vast array of nuclear facilities. The Magnox Decommissioning Project encompasses 22 former Magnox nuclear power production reactors across 10 reactor sites and five research/test reactors at two former research sites. Decommissioning activities have been underway at some sites for nearly 20 years with early focus on retrieving and stabilising wastes and draining and stabilising spent fuel ponds. The Magnox decommissioning strategy invokes a programme perspective to drive consistency in tackling similar decommissioning and waste challenges across multiple sites. Programme central teams have worked with technology suppliers to foster learning from industry experience to develop and deploy tooling and robotics. The programme approach has also facilitated learning from one site to the next. In many cases, this central programme approach has promoted an evolution of technologies resulting in optimisation of simple remote tooling. In other instances, collaboration with suppliers is producing state-of-the-art technologies to tackle more unique challenges including, most recently, early demonstration of laser cutting for reactor vessel dismantling. This paper will outline the programme management approach and the scalable optioneering process Magnox employs to select the engineered controls and technologies used in decommissioning and waste management activities. It will provide an overview of the broad range of remote tooling and robotics deployed across the 12 Magnox sites by exploring some specific examples. Lastly, the paper will summarise key lessons learned in the now extensive history of selecting and using remote technologies to decommission Magnox nuclear facilities. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977875
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--20-WM-18630
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
CLEANING
DECOMMISSIONING
MAGNOX
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
OPTIMIZATION
PRODUCTION REACTORS
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
RADIATION HAZARDS
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
REACTOR SITES
REACTOR VESSELS
REMOTE CONTROL
SPENT FUELS
TEST REACTORS
UNITED KINGDOM