This report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency looks at how the safety of nuclear power has improved over the years, as designs have progressed from Gen I to Gen III.
EDF Energy recently hosted two successful regional conferences in Somerset and Suffolk to share its plans for nuclear new build with the local communities. A national conference is now planned for 13 September 2010 in London to further highlight the plans and designs for nuclear installations in the UK.
Cammell Laird and Nuvia are announcing an ambitious partnership agreement today which aims to ‘catapult’ them to the forefront of the UK’s multi billion pound new nuclear build programme.
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA has today (1 September 2010) published the draft of its updated Strategy for consultation.
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Kevin Allars, Director of New Build GDA at the HSE, and Joe McHugh, Head of Radioactive Substances Regulation at the Environment Agency, have today published the second Quarterly Report for 2010 (April–June).
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John Ritch, Director General at the World Nuclear Association and former adviser to US President Bill Clinton, spoke to an audience of graduates at the Sixth Annual Summer Institute of the World Nuclear University at Christ Church, Oxford last week.
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has published the UK Strategy for the Management of Solid Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLW) from the Nuclear Industry.
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Small and Medium Sized (SMEs) businesses are invited to attend an event aimed at saving them valuable time, by removing complexity, and steering them through the maze of information already available and help provide a head-start for them to compete for nuclear supply chain contracts.
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NNL has many years experience of the nuclear fuel cycle and associated science and technology and is in an ideal position to advise decision makers on key topics which are important when considering the UK’s ability to meet these nuclear challenges.
NEF Assured (Nuclear) is the industry specific standard for assuring deliverers of training in the nuclear sector. It has been specifically developed to assure the standard of training that is delivered ‘in-house’ by nuclear organisations.
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