Nuclear

admin on February 3rd, 2012

Large tracts of land at two sites owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) have been officially sanctioned as available for new development after the last remaining nuclear regulations were removed.

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John on February 2nd, 2012

The sky-line at Dungeness A is about to change as of work starts to knock down a series of redundant buildings.

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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 30th, 2012

Six hectares of land at Harwell, the UK’s first nuclear site, have been delicensed by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) this month (January 2012), marking a significant achievement within the decommissioning programme at the site.  

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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 25th, 2012

Japan Atomic Industry Forum JAIF reports on the 93% of Japanese nuclear reactors that are now switched out of service.

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John on January 23rd, 2012

In February, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) will be holding a forum for communities neighbouring Sizewell A and B to hear from inspectors with responsibility for regulating safety at the nuclear power plants.

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John on January 20th, 2012

Jacobs Engineering Group announced today that it signed a resource protocol for the recruitment of employees from Magnox Limited to Jacobs’ United Kingdom operations.

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John on January 19th, 2012

The latest face-to-face survey of the British public by Ipsos MORI shows that public support for nuclear energy has bounced back strongly since its June 2011 low point in the wake of the Fukushima incident in Japan in March.

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