The nuclear industry is powering up — and new opportunities are emerging across every stage of the fuel supply chain!
BWXT has been awarded a new contract to supply depleted hashtag#uranium components — a move that reinforces the strategic importance of strengthening the nuclear fuel supply chain. This award highlights growing investment in advanced fuel cycle capabilities, ensuring the materials and technologies needed to power the next generation of nuclear reactors. As the industry expands,...Continue reading→
Cumbria’s low level radioactive waste disposal facility
Drigg, the UK’s only low-level radioactive waste repository, offers a striking example of long-term stewardship of nuclear byproducts — from its beginnings in 1959 through to planned closure by 2127, and full decommissioning by 2135. The facility, managed by Nuclear Waste Services, operates vaults and legacy trenches, containerises waste in engineered concrete “bathtubs,” and is...Continue reading→