Nuclear
The UK and Japan has agreed a Framework on Civil Nuclear Cooperation, providing the basis for UK companies to engage in multi-billion pound decommissioning opportunities in Japan.
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The Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR recently received an application for the transfer of the Sellafield Limited Capenhurst licensed site in Cheshire to Urenco UK Limited.
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Following in the footsteps of the previous LLW Conference held in 2010, the Nuclear Institute plans to hold this year’s event Thursday 26 April at the Rheged Centre, Penrith, Cumbria.
Babcock Dounreay Partnership (BDP) has today (Monday 2 April 2012) been formally awarded the contract to manage the decommissioning, demolition and clean-up of the Dounreay nuclear site, having officially taken ownership of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DRSL).
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Westinghouse and NPD UK are disappointed in the decision made by E.ON and RWE not to proceed with plans for new nuclear energy stations in the United Kingdom.
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Following strategic reviews undertaken by Horizon’s shareholders RWE npower and E.ON, the decision has been taken not to proceed with developing new nuclear generation in the UK through Horizon.
The village of Berkeley in Gloucestershire came to a standstill as two massive boilers – each weighing more than 25 London buses – trundled slowly through the streets to be shipped off for recycling.
NuGen has been granted a Generation Licence by OfGem, marking another step in the company’s development plans to bring a new nuclear power station to West Cumbria.
The Scottish Government has announced the outcome of consultation on the return of radioactive waste to countries that sent their nuclear fuel to Dounreay in the 1990s for reprocessing.
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The Nuclear Environmental Discharges Conference (NEDCON) 17 & 18 April 2012 is the only UK conference for nuclear sector environmental practitioners in both decommissioning and new nuclear.
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