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Trawsfynydd celebrated a major milestone yesterday when its new Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) Store was officially opened – marking a first for a Magnox site. Read it all..

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VT Group plc (“VT” or the “Company”) notes the announcement by Babcock International Group plc (“Babcock”) and confirms that it received a preliminary approach from Babcock on 3 February regarding a possible offer for the Company. Read it all..

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The Health and Safety Executive has welcomed the publication of a second report into its Nuclear Directorate from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A team of senior nuclear regulators from across the world visited the UK in October 2009 to perform a second peer review of ND’s work in regulating safety at Britain’s nuclear facilities, the first being in 2006.

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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 fourth Quarterly Report for 2009 (October – December).  This provides an update on our work to assess new nuclear power station designs.

In summary, good progress continues on the assessment, but many technical issues remain open and the successful clearance of these will require high quality and timely information from the Requesting Parties (RPs).

View Fourth GDA Quarterly Report for 2009

Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has announced changes to its senior management team.

The changes allow the current parent body organisation and its partners to recall and replace senior figures prior to the start of the NDA competition for a new parent body. They also reflect a natural turnover to refresh the business. Read it all..