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John on January 10th, 2012

Dounreay is close to completing one of Britain’s most important nuclear clean-up tasks in the destruction of liquid metal from Britain’s experimental fast breeder reactor.

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John on January 9th, 2012

Cleaning up the Sellafield site and dealing with the historical nuclear legacy involves tackling some complex issues and one particular issue that has been addressed recently is the management of the Windscale Trenches.

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John on January 6th, 2012

The Waste Encapsulation Treatment Plant (WETP) at Winfrith has been demolished, marking the final stage of decommissioning of the plant, following successful completion of a five year sludge retrieval and processing programme by site licence company RSRL, parent body organisation Babcock reports.

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John on January 5th, 2012

Atkins and Assystem are to form a strategic alliance to create a 50/50 nuclear engineering joint venture to provide consultancy and engineering services to the rapidly-expanding international nuclear new build market.

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admin on December 21st, 2011

A protocol for the transfer of employees from Magnox Limited to AMEC has been agreed by the two companies.

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admin on December 20th, 2011

Wylfa Site has reached a significant milestone in its lifecycle by taking delivery of the last Magnox nuclear fuel elements ever to be manufactured.

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John on December 19th, 2011

Rolls-Royce has won a €250 million contract with AREVA to supply safety instrumentation and control (I&C) technologies and systems for the French nuclear reactor modernisation programme.

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John on December 15th, 2011

Westinghouse Electric Company is delighted that the UK regulators – Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Environment Agency (EA) – have today granted Interim Design Acceptance Confirmation (IDAC) and Interim Statement of Design Acceptability (ISoDA) to the company’s AP1000® reactor design.

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John on December 14th, 2011

EDF Energy and AREVA are pleased by the decisions by the Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR) to issue an Interim Design Acceptance Confirmation, and the Environment Agency to issue an Interim Statement of Design Acceptability, for the EPR Pressurised Water Reactor.

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John on December 13th, 2011

Westinghouse have announced an important Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with DBD Limited relating to the future development of the Westinghouse AP1000® reactor design in the UK.

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