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John on December 23rd, 2011

May I wish all the visitors to Nuclear Matters a terrific Christmas holiday and a spectacular 2012.

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John on December 13th, 2011

ONR guidance on radioactive waste management has been updated as a result of comments received since February 2010.

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John on November 8th, 2011

Building the skills and education infrastructure needed to support the NDA’s clean-up mission has taken its next step with the construction of a new world-class nuclear research centre in West Cumbria.

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John on October 20th, 2011

Following a 4 year residency at the National Nuclear Laboratories NNL at Workington, the Master Slave Manipulator (MSM) training facility has relocated to the Sellafield site making savings of £10,000 each month in ground rent costs.

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admin on September 30th, 2011

The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum JAIF report brings us up to date with the situation and progress in Fukushima following the nuclear accident.

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ACTUS, a joint venture of AMEC, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc, Costain and Babcock, has been awarded a contract worth up to £67 million over four years, by Magnox Limited.

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John on August 25th, 2011

A Dounreay health physicist recently completed a trip to the Magnox Bradwell nuclear power station in Essex.

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John on August 4th, 2011

Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd is working with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA and Scotland’s enterprise network to make it easier for companies to win work in the nuclear marketplace.

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John on July 27th, 2011

A new self erecting tower crane has been built at Sellafield as part of the work to retrieve historical waste from a 60-year-old silo.

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John on July 25th, 2011

The Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR and Environment Agency have completed their initial assessment of the safety cases for the two proposed new nuclear reactor designs and have published all of the issues that still need resolving.

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