Shipment Notices

Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd (PNTL) is planning to transport MOX fuel from France to Japan in 2017. MOX fuel assemblies for the Takahama Nuclear Power Station Unit 4 have been manufactured and will be transported later this year. The regulations governing the security of such transports require some specific details of the preparations and operation […]

Following successful departure from the UK, the vessel Pacific Grebe remains on passage carrying five transport flasks of highly active waste bound for Japan. The vessel has now transited the Panama Canal and continues en route to its destination.

Following successful loading operations, the vessel Pacific Grebe departed the UK on 1 September carrying five transport flasks of highly active waste bound for Japan. The ship will travel to Japan and will arrive in the second half of October.  

Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd (PNTL), International Nuclear Services (INS) and Sellafield Ltd are today commencing the latest return of highly active waste from the UK to Japan. This is the sixth such shipment from the UK demonstrating excellent progress in the programme to return foreign-owned waste stored in the UK to its country of origin.  […]

Further to the recent announcement, International Nuclear Services (INS), Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd (PNTL) and Sellafield Ltd, are making the final preparations for the sixth transport of highly active waste from Sellafield, UK, to Japan. The shipment will take place in the near future using the PNTL ship, Pacific Grebe, a state-of-the-art purpose-built nuclear cargo […]

The UK’s programme to repatriate overseas-owned highly active waste continues to make excellent progress. Five shipments to Japan have now been safely and successfully completed and another one is due to depart in the coming weeks. In line with normal practice information relating to this upcoming sixth shipment to Japan will be released as follows: […]

International Nuclear Services, its subsidiary Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited and Sellafield Ltd have successfully completed the fifth shipment in a decade-long programme to repatriate highly active waste to Japan from the UK. The vessel, Pacific Grebe, arrived in Japan on 16 September, having travelled via the Panama Canal. The 124 canisters of waste, contained in five […]

Following successful departure from the UK, the vessel Pacific Grebe remains on passage carrying five transport flasks of highly active waste bound for Japan. The vessel, Pacific Grebe, has now transited the Panama Canal and continues en route to its destination.

Following successful loading operations, the vessel Pacific Grebe departed the UK on 28 July 2015 carrying five transport flasks of highly active waste bound for Japan. The ship will travel to Japan and will arrive in the second half of September.