Nuclear News Roundup Aug 12, 2018 The first shielded waste transfer package has been installed onto one of three machines at the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS) at the Sellafield site in the UK. The machines will begin removing magnesium swarf waste from the building's 22 silo compartments from next year. World-nuclear-news.org The owner of a northern Illinois nuclear plant wants to ship about 45 pounds of highly radioactive nuclear fuel rods through Michigan on their way to a Canadian testing facility. Excelon Generation tells the Detroit Free Press that the rods will be packed inside a 24-ton, heavily shielded shipping cask for shipment from the LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station near Marseilles, Illinois. Wndu.cpm Public Citizen is calling on the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to release any information it gave to the Department of Energy on which power plants are needed to keep hospitals running, arguing that such consideration could expand the scope of DOE's efforts to save coal and nuclear plants. Spglobal.com Thousands of tons of material needs to be dredged from the Hinkley Point C building site in Somerset. The developer wants to dispose of 300,000 tons of mud across the Bristol Channel in the Cardiff Grounds, a little over a mile out to sea from Cardiff Bay. Bbc.com
