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The Pacific Swan was retired from service in 2004 but she lives on by way of a donation of key equipment to the Vine Trust Amazonferry Health Project, a British charity dedicated to providing medical treatment to street children in Peru. Prior to moving to The Netherlands for recycling, two quick release life belt boxes […]

Author: A A Brown, International Transport, British Nuclear Group Sellafield Limited, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire WA3 6AS, UK

PNTL has offered congratulations to James Fisher Rumic for its rescue of seven Russian sailors off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. Their submarine, the Priz, had become entangled in fishing nets and was stuck at a depth of 190 metres. The marine support company was able to free it by cutting the nets […]

Royal Institute of Naval Architects Conference on Recycling of Ships and Other Marine Structures, London May 2005 Author: T.D. Pearce International Transport, British Nuclear Group Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL), the specialist international shipper of nuclear materials, today launches its first website. The new website, www.pntl.co.uk, provides information on the PNTL fleet, ship safety systems and international regulations. It includes a vessel tour feature and contains animation that demonstrates some of the special safety systems employed by the fleet. It also […]

The four MOX fuel assemblies fabricated from American excess weapon-grade plutonium have left the port of Cherbourg this morning at 3:05 am for Charleston (United States). The two chartered ships, the Pacific Teal and the Pacific Pintail, are purpose-built and dedicated for nuclear materials transportation. The ships meet high safety and security standards, in compliance […]

Making Mixed Oxide Lead Fuel Assemblies for the U.S. Plutonium Disposition Program This document is in PDF format. http://www.nnsa.doe.gov/docs/NA-05-FS01.pdf

On February 16th, 2005, COGEMA announced that the route to be used and the approximate date of arrival in Japan would be released following the departure. The Pacific Sandpiper, carrying vitrified residues back to Japan, has left Cherbourg – France – yesterday February, 17th, 2005 at 6h20 pm local time, and will transit to Japan via […]

A tenth shipment of vitrified residues to Japan will leave Cherbourg on February, 17th, 2005. 5 casks containing 124 canisters of vitrified residues will be loaded on the Pacific Sandpiper. Reprocessing used nuclear fuel recovers 97% of valuable, reusable material and separates out the remaining 3%, which is waste. The waste is conditioned by turning […]