Defuelling should be complete by 2013 but is just one part of the £800m decommissioning process of the plant. It is hoped the site can reach a "care and maintenance" state by about 2023.

It is a major step in the process towards the end of defuelling and a loss of 47 jobs next year. The milestone at the nuclear power plant near Annan was completed on Friday .

The defuelling process at the site is expected to be complete by 2013 The multi-million pound decommissioning of the Chapelcross nuclear plant has reached another significant milestone.

Measures have been taken for the defuelling of the sunken vessel M V Princess Miral. The vessel ran aground a few nautical miles away from Ullal on June 21 last year.

The defuelling of two of the four reactors was officially completed this week. The overall defuelling programme had originally been scheduled to be completed by the end of last year, but is now ...

EDF Energy has started removing the used fuel from the core of Hunterston B's Reactor 3, an advanced gas-cooled reactor that shut down in November 2021. Defuelling is the first stage of the nuclear ...

It meant that from August 2008, when defuelling began, to December 2008, only 13 nuclear fuel rods had been taken out of reactor 1. Since then, the defuelling of reactor 3 has also begun.

The start of the defuelling phase at Dungeness B "will have no bearing on Britain’s energy supplies", the government says. EDF announced yesterday it will not restart the Romney Marsh plant, but ...

WATCH: Defuelling of stranded ship at Karachi beach ‘safely completed’ Pakistan Navy along with other maritime stakeholders jointly carried out operation, says official statement ...

Work on decommissioning the Chapelcross nuclear plant has reached a milestone as the third of its four reactors has been completely defuelled. The Annan plant ceased power generation in 2004 and ...

Generating sites are given priority which is why Sizewell's defuelling has been delayed." Owners of Sizewell A the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said that since the plant's shutdown several ...

Contractors are half way towards defuelling the twin reactors at Sizewell A nuclear power station. Work began to remove spent fuel from the site in August 2009 as part of the decommissioning process.