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The company has signed an agreement with West Somerset Council and a local landowner which will see the energy company providing £30 million to mitigate the impacts of the works to prepare the site for the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.
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Horizon has today announced that it has completed the purchase of land which is key to the development of its proposed new nuclear power station near Oldbury-on-Severn in South Gloucestershire.
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NuGen has applied to regulators Ofgem for a generating licence.
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Horizon will hold its first Open Surgery of 2012 at Cemaes Village Hall on 23 January, at which local people can ask questions about the company’s plans for a new nuclear power station at Wylfa.
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.
Generic designs for two nuclear reactors proposed for construction in the UK have been granted interim design acceptance by the independent nuclear safety, security and environment regulators.
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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.
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.
EDF Energy will today outline the billions of pounds of opportunities on its UK nuclear new build programme as more than 350 companies gather for its third National Supply Chain event.
A report commissioned by the Sector Skills Council and Industry Training Board for the construction industry looks at construction workforce requirements for the proposed nuclear new build (NNB) programme and its possible implications for future training requirements.
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