Cold and active commissioning has been completed of the full-scale demonstration GeoMelt In-Container Vitrification (ICV) plant at the UK's Sellafield site. The first commercial vitrification of radioactive waste was performed last week. world-nuclear-news.org German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2011 decision to rapidly phase out the country’s 17 nuclear power reactors has left the government and utilities with a massive problem: How to clean up and store large amounts of nuclear waste and other radioactive material. e360.yale.edu Chicago Bridge & Iron Co has sued Cranberry-based Westinghouse Electric Co. to protect itself from a potential $2 billion claim from Westinghouse related to the sale of CB&I’s nuclear construction business to Westinghouse in 2015. powersource.post-gazette.com French state-controlled power group EDF is set to hold a supervisory board meeting on July 28 to decide whether to go ahead or not with a project to build and operate two nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point in Britain. forbes.com
