Nuclear
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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Decommissioning one of the oldest nuclear storage ponds has reached new depths in risk reduction thanks to the use of mini submarines as Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV).
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), advising of their intention to launch its next major competition for the management of civil nuclear sites.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (TEPCO) announced that it has classified Units 1 through 4 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) as permanently decommissioned from April 19 2012.
NuGen owner GDF Suez warns current policy framework is not enough to drive nuclear investment.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has published Quarterly News, the fourth quarterly news update, as part of efforts to carry out our work with greater openness and transparency.
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