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Tuesday 8 September 2009Chapelcross Starts Defuelling from Two Reactors
Another key milestone in the defuelling of the four Chapelcross Reactors was reached on Thursday 3 September when defuelling started on Reactor 3.
Up until last week, the 18 flasks of fuel, containing nearly 2,500 fuel elements already despatched to Sellafield for reprocessing have all came from Reactor 1.
Tim Dunham, Chapelcross Defuelling and Operations Manager said : “Since April we have averaged nearly a flask a week being transported from the site to Sellafield. What this now means is the site has two reactors to defuel in parallel, giving Chapelcross the opportunity to ship up to two flasks a week, subject to flask availability.”
The defuelling of Chapelcross is a major decommissioning project for the site and from April this year until November 2011, between 270-300 flasks will transport all 38,075 fuel elements removed from the four reactors at Chapelcross for reprocessing at Sellafield.
