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Harwell Nuclear Material Transfers Nuclear Material Transfers Project Four Waste streams Significant Lifetime cost savings Scope To Sellafield to NDA estate. Consolidation of NM on a Category 1 site (Sellafield) and 251

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Harwell Nuclear Material Transfers

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Nuclear Material Transfers Project

  • Significant Lifetime cost savings

to NDA estate.

  • Consolidation of NM on a

Category 1 site (Sellafield) and reduction of Site Security Requirements at Harwell.

  • Environmental benefits through

avoiding new build facilities at Harwell

  • Enabler for clearance of Winfrith
  • site. 70% of NM must be

transferred before ILW transfers from Winfrith to Harwell can commence.

Four Waste streams Scope To Sellafield

  • 251 stainless steel canisters of

Dragon Fuel.

  • 4004 drums Contact Handled ILW.

2332 Concrete Lined Drums.

Scope To Capenhurst

  • 57 drums Low Enriched Uranium

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Contact Handled ILW Drums

  • 200-litre drums of Plutonium Contaminated

Material (PCM) & other ILW.

  • Transfer window: April 2013 – Dec 2021
  • Transport packages: FHISO (IP-2) & Novapak

(Type B)

  • Transfers: 4004 drums in 278 shipments
  • Progress to date: 2672 drums in 125 shipments

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Concrete Lined Drums

  • 200-litre, 450-litre & 670-litre CLDs containing PCM

and miscellaneous βγ waste

  • Transfer window: April 2017 - Dec 2023
  • Transport packages: FHISO (IP-2) & Gemini (Type

B)

  • Transfers: 2332 drums in 372 shipments
  • Progress to date: 1016 drums in 118 shipments

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Dragon Fuel

  • 40-litre stainless steel canisters of Dragon

Fuel originating from the Winfrith Dragon Reactor.

  • Transfer: Dec 2018 – Dec 2022
  • Transfers :126 in 1.5 Modular Package.
  • Phase 1 active commissioning complete

with 6 cans in three shipments.

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Low Enriched Uranium drums

  • 200-litre drums containing Low

Enriched Uranium cans.

  • Transfer: Oct 2019– Feb 2020
  • Transport packages: Novapak
  • Transfers:

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Summary

  • Currently 55.8% complete
  • verall
  • CLD transfers ahead of

schedule with 1000th drum just completed.

  • Dragon Phase 2 active

shipments commence in May.

  • TN Gemini Manufacture
  • n Schedule.
  • Fourth FHISO container

hired to accelerate PCM Moves.

  • Novapak to restart active

moves April 22 following

  • utage to address

Manufacturing issues.

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