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The Babcock-Bechtel joint venture Bechtel Babcock Nuclear Solutions (BBNS) has been contracted by Sellafield Ltd to move into phase two of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo Retrieval Project, Silo Doors & Retrieval Modules (SDRM), having successfully completed phase one.
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Decommissioning one of the oldest nuclear storage ponds has reached new depths in risk reduction thanks to the use of mini submarines as Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV).
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NuGen owner GDF Suez warns current policy framework is not enough to drive nuclear investment.
Magnox has dispatched its final flask of fuel from Dungeness A for reprocessing at Sellafield in Cumbria, completing a five-year programme of defuelling which has removed 99% of the radioactive hazard from the site.
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Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy enterprise Rosatom has said it would propose building the Generation III+ PWR 1200-MWe NPP 2006 in the UK.
Dounreay has completed the destruction of one of the most hazardous legacies of Britain’s earliest atomic research.
Babcock has successfully completed a project to assist Sellafield Ltd in the decommissioning of the Pile Fuel Storage Pond facility at the Cumbria site, 10 months ahead of schedule.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NNL on handling UK plutonium.
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The new Magnox socio-economic scheme has been launched in partnership with the NDA and EnergySolutions.
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Babcock Dounreay Partnership (BDP) has today (Monday 2 April 2012) been formally awarded the contract to manage the decommissioning, demolition and clean-up of the Dounreay nuclear site, having officially taken ownership of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DRSL).
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