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    The Magnox Reprocessing Plant is a former nuclear reprocessing facility at Sellafield in northern England, which operated from 1964 to 2022. The plant used...
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    dedicated Magnox Reprocessing Plant, it became a pre-handling plant to allow oxide fuel to be reprocessed in the Magnox reprocessing plant. It was closed...
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    The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, or THORP, is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, England. THORP is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning...
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  • Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (Japan) The Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility (六ヶ所村核燃料再処理施設, Rokkasho Kakunenryō Saishori...
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    Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclear fuel. Originally, reprocessing was used solely to...
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  • metal. "Reprocessing plants, world-wide". 2015-06-22. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 2022-03-09. "Job done: Sellafield plant safely...
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    of the magnox design led to the UK building up a large stockpile of fuel-grade (reactor-grade) plutonium, with the aid of the B205 reprocessing facility...
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    operation of a hydro-electric plant. NRS was created as part of re-structuring of the NDA Estate, which saw Dounreay join with Magnox Ltd in April 2023. In the...
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    spent fuel was taken across the Sellafield site to be reprocessed within the Magnox Reprocessing Plant. It is planned that by 2027 only the four reactor buildings...
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    PUREX (category Nuclear reprocessing)
    Mayak Magnox Reprocessing Plant and Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield, both ended operation Tokai, Ibaraki West Valley Reprocessing Plant Savannah...
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    Tokaimura nuclear accidents (category Nuclear reprocessing sites)
    reported a 20% increase of radiation levels in the area surrounding the reprocessing plant, but later revealed the true percent was ten times higher than initially...
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    Dounreay (category Nuclear reprocessing sites)
    in 2016. A plant for reprocessing MTR fuel was built early in the life of the Dounreay facility and operated for over 30 years, reprocessing on a small...
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    Radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan began being discharged into the Pacific Ocean on 11 March 2011, following the...
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    Spent nuclear fuel (category Nuclear reprocessing)
    the reprocessing itself. If these constituent portions of spent fuel were reused, and additional wastes that may come as a byproduct of reprocessing are...
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    Dungeness headland in the south of Kent, England. Dungeness A is a legacy Magnox power station consisting of two 250 MWe reactors which were connected to...
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    decommissioning of the Magnox spent fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield. Springfields Fuels Limited ended production of Magnox fuel elements in 2008...
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  • Nuclear Power Plant Higashidōri Nuclear Power Plant Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Nuclear power in...
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    a major nuclear accident started at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The direct cause was the Tōhoku earthquake and...
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    Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center (category Nuclear reprocessing sites)
    storage facility, a fuel reprocessing facility that recovers uranium and plutonium from spent fuel using the PUREX process. Magnox spent fuel is not designed...
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    Nuclear fuel cycle (category Nuclear reprocessing)
    power generation. Currently, plants in Europe are reprocessing spent fuel from utilities in Europe and Japan. Reprocessing of spent commercial-reactor...
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  • as the UK's B204 reprocessing incident in 1973, where 34 employees were exposed. With corrosion of the fuel rod-cladding in the MAGNOX-reactor, spent fuel...
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    power plant. The first unit was built in the early 1960s to the British Magnox design, and generated power from 1966 until it was decommissioned in 1998...
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    Nuclear fuel (redirect from Magnox fuel)
    spent nuclear fuel reprocessed in a way that renders the plutonium in it usable for nuclear fuel but not for nuclear weapons. Reprocessing of spent commercial-reactor...
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    nuclear power station Hinkley Point C nuclear power station Magnox Magnox Reprocessing Plant "HINKLEY POINT A-1". Public Reactor Information System. IAEA...
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    Chapelcross nuclear power station is a former Magnox nuclear power station undergoing decommissioning. It is located in Annan in Dumfries and Galloway...
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  • carbon compared to water Magnox fuel cladding cannot be stored for long times in a spent fuel pool making nuclear reprocessing mandatory Boudouard reaction...
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  • manages the decommissioning and clean-up of the UK's older Magnox power plants and the reprocessing facilities at Sellafield, which were transferred to its...
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    The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant (大飯発電所, Ōi hatsudensho; Ōi power plant), also known as Oi or Ohi, is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Ōi, Fukui...
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    nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants and research reactors to disposal sites such as the nuclear reprocessing center at COGEMA La Hague site. Railway-carried...
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    fuel. Originally spent fuel was reprocessed under contract in England and France, but then the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant was built, with operations originally...
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