At the NW NI branch dinner last night the Nuclear Institute and Institute of Physics announced a new collaboration with the Lab in a Lorry project. Read the rest of this entry »
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The NDA has published its Strategy Development Programme for Integrated Waste Management. Read the rest of this entry »
The Technology Strategy Board, in partnership with the NDA, DECC and EPSRC recently announced a £15m competition to support the UK’s civil nuclear supply chain. Read the rest of this entry »
Magnox hit a second decommissioning milestone when the last of the nuclear fuel was removed from the second of Chapelcross’ four reactors. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR is a major contributor to an international workshop to learn lessons from the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident by improving crisis communications. Read the rest of this entry »
The Nuclear Institute is pleased to announce that the ninth in its series of Radioactive Materials Transport and Storage conferences will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on the 22nd to the 24th of May 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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Progress to deal with radioactive sludge in the Sellafield 60-year-old Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) has been impressive, with several milestones recently achieved. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Government has launched a six-week consultation on plans to amend the technical regulations that support the provisions in the Energy Act 2008 on decommissioning and clean-up of nuclear sites. Read the rest of this entry »
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EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Andrej Stritar, Chairperson of ENSREG, the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group, welcomed the adoption of the ENSREG stress test report and the agreement to examine some safety aspects in more detail and prepare a follow up in the next few months. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
