Magnox North’s Oldbury Power Station is celebrating its return to generating electricity at ‘full-power’ after exactly five years of reduced output. Read it all..

The Future of Nuclear Power 2009 report by MIT is an update of the 2003 version.

The conclusion is that if more is not done, nuclear power will diminish as a practical and timely option for deployment at a scale that would constitute a material contribution to climate change risk mitigation. Read it all..

Like a giant Meccano set, some 1500 parts are being fitted together to create a new ventilation system that will protect workers decommissioning some of Dounreay’s most hazardous facilities. Read it all..

New nuclear build nuclear programme to generate work worth billions of pounds.
Key speeches to be made by EDF Energy CEO Vincent de Rivaz and Energy Minister, Mike O’Brien MP. Read it all..

Press release Sellafield Ltd 21/5/2009

Enhanced funding has been announced for Sellafield Ltd to progress the development of two major projects at the site it operates at Capenhurst in Cheshire.

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Twenty years ago the nuclear industry came together to create WANO – the World Association of Nuclear Operators.

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Following on from a seminar for potential operators, held on 26 February 2008, the HSE and the Environmental Agency held a second joint seminar at Aintree, Liverpool on 13 May 2009. Read it all..

As part of ongoing research into the health effects of exposure to radiation, a new study is being carried out to investigate lung cancer risk and leukaemia risk among European Union nuclear workers exposed to internally deposited radionuclides. Read it all..

Press Release Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd – 13^th May 2007

Dounreay aerial view

Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has received planning consent for two of the biggest construction projects needed to complete the site clean-up.

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Centrica has agreed with EDF in buying 20% of British Energy. Read it all..