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The pace of the Dounreay competition continues to gain momentum, with the NDA announcing the publication of the Contract Notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

The publication of the Contract Notice coincides with the second part of the Industry Event on 9 March in Glasgow and marks the start of the prequalification period of the Dounreay Parent Body Organisation (PBO) Competition.

The event on 9 March is to provide the market with key information about the specific requirements and process for the competition, as well the expectations of key stakeholders and regulators. Read it all..

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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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Caithness welcomes a raft of first-time visitors this month, as nuclear industry representatives arrive for the launch of the two-part Dounreay Industry Event on the 5th February.

 The first part of the event, which will be held at the Wick Assembly Rooms, is being hosted by the Dounreay Stakeholder Group, with support from the NDA. Read it all..

The programme of returning solid Highly Active Waste (HAW) from Sellafield to overseas customers, announced in September last year, began this week. Read it all..

The National Skills Academy for Nuclear in partnership with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is rolling out a fourth round of their Bursary award scheme.  Read it all..

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The world’s deepest nuclear clean-up job has won its 4th top award for engineering excellence.

Judges in this year’s Scottish Saltire Awards named the shaft isolation project at Dounreay as one of the country’s best examples of civil engineering. Read it all..

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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is pleased to announce that today, following a period of market engagement and negotiation with interested parties, it has sold an area of land comprising 190 ha (470 acres) lying to the north of the existing site at Sellafield in Cumbria for a value of at least £70 million. The winning consortium comprises Iberdrola S.A, GdF Suez S.A and Scottish and Southern Energy plc. Read it all..

The NDA is seeking views on a draft charter that aims to foster good working relations throughout its supply chain. Read it all..

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the Environment Agency are encouraging senior executives throughout the nuclear industry to become ‘Environmental Leaders’. Read it all..

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For over 30 years, overseas used nuclear fuel has been reprocessed in the UK, under contract  at Sellafield, to separate and recover the reusable nuclear materials from the waste.  Since 1976 all UK reprocessing contracts have contained an option for this radioactive waste to be returned to its country of origin. In 1986 HM Government took the decision that this option should be exercised. Read it all..