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Nuclear Decomissioning

Decommissioning a power plant.

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Nuclear Decomissioning

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  1. Nuclear Decommissioning

  2. Nuclear Decommissioning • Nuclear decommissioning is essentially the removal radio active material from a particular premise. Radioactive material is tightly controlled and facilities in which contain these materials are tightly regulated. • Decommissioning is not straight forward, nor is it simple to undertake. The process can last several months; it is also a very expensive.

  3. Immediate Dismantling • Immediate dismantling: as a matter of urgency any potentially controlled materials are removed, and this is undertaken as a matter of urgency. At this point, an full decontamination is undertaken and the facility is restored to a state where it safe and able to be reused relatively quickly

  4. Safestore • Safestore: this process is rather safer, but is ultimately a far longer process, any radioactive material is removed, from site and transported to a “safe store”, from this point the power station is then monitored for at least 40 years whilst radioactive material dissipates to a safe level. Naturally, this method is safer than the immediate dismantling of a site.

  5. Entombment • Entombment is actually as it sounds; any radioactive material within he facility is moved to safe area and is actually encased within a concrete tomb. The concrete is poured over the material in most cases in order to encase the cells.

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