UK Uses 'Lead and Learn' Strategy for Magnox Reactor Fleet Decommissioning

摘要

Energy policy responses to the nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima site, changing economics, and aging first-generation nuclear infrastructure are all contributing to what promises to be a sizeable wave of nuclear plant decommissioning projects worldwide. The United Kingdom has something of a head start, and even though its first-generation reactor technology was unique, its approach to the complicated task of decommissioning may offer lessons for other nations.