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John on February 1st, 2012

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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John on January 31st, 2012

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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John on January 26th, 2012

NuGen has applied to regulators Ofgem for a generating licence.

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John on January 17th, 2012

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.

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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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John on December 15th, 2011

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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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

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.

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John on December 9th, 2011

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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