EDF Group is announcing a five year extension to the operating lifetime of its nuclear reactors at Heysham 1 and Hartlepool until 2019. The decision taken at a British Energy Board meeting follows positive results from technical and economic and safety studies conducted on these reactors. Read it all..
Atkins and Assystem are to form a strategic alliance to create a 50/50 nuclear engineering joint venture to provide consultancy and engineering services to the rapidly-expanding international nuclear new build market. The Nuclear Atkins Assystem Alliance will enable both companies to address demand from governments and utilities in countries developing nuclear power as part of their energy mix and will provide services to nuclear new build projects and across the entire nuclear fuel cycle. Read it all..
Babcock Dounreay Partnership bids for Dounreay nuclear decommissioning contract
Babcock Dounreay Partnership, a consortium of Babcock International Group, CH2M HILL and URS, has been short-listed by the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to bid for the management and operations contract at Dounreay, originally the UK’s centre of fast reactor research and development and now Scotland’s largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project. Dounreay is currently managed by a Site Licence Company (SLC) called DSRL (Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd). Read it all..
BAE Systems have today announced that as a result of the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 programme; will potentially close the Woodford Site in Cheshire earlier than had been previously announced, this could happen as early as March next 2011 instead of the planned closure in 2012. Read it all..
THE UK NUCLEAR INDUSTRY has been given a major boost by the public with the highest level of support for new nuclear power since national polling began some 12 years ago. Read it all..
£400 million clean-up project on Europe’s largest nuclear site in Cumbria has created around
175 new highly skilled jobs at the Interserve Pioneer Point facility in Cheshire.
Interserve Industrial who were awarded a contract with process engineering contractor Costain
Oil & Gas Process Ltd, principal contractor for the Evaporator D project at the Sellafield nuclear
site in September last year, have now taken over space in a large indoor facility located at the
230,000 sq ft Pioneer Point facility, opposite Interserve’s existing facility on the Poole Hall Road
Industrial Estate to carry out the module assembly and testing work. Read it all..