Nuclear News Roundup Aug 11, 2016 Additional documentation on the engineering feasibility of a deep repository has been submitted by Switzerland's national radioactive waste disposal cooperative Nagra. It claims there are no safety advantages to constructing a deeper repository than originally envisaged. world-nuclear-news.org Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) CEO Doug Hunter announced that the organization had identified its preferred site from four possible locations within INL's boundaries. Speaking at the Intermountain Energy Summit, he said the 35 acre (14 hectare) plot lies about six miles (10 km) southeast of the Lost River Rest Stop near the junction of US Highways 20 and 26. world-nuclear-news.org Westinghouse has reportedly shut down or partly shut down its nuclear fuel processing and assembly plant in South Carolina on a voluntary basis following an Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection team's visit to review why an air scrubber had accumulated an excessive amount of uranium-bearing material. nuclearstreet.com UK government’s own projections expect onshore wind power and large-scale solar to cost less per megawatt hour than new nuclear by 2025. the guardian.com
