Magnox North Press Release

A partnership between Salford based Marick Communications and Magnox  – the company who manage the UK’s first generation of nuclear power stations – has been awarded one of the highest accolades in public relations.

The i4 innovation campaign – which promotes, recognises and rewards innovation in the nuclear industry – was announced as the ‘Best Event’ at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) PRide North West region awards ceremony on the 24^th November. Read it all..

The Nuclear industry’s two major companies Magnox North and Magnox South are to reintegrate after just 2 years as separate companies.

Magnox Electric Limited separated in October 2008 to create Magnox North which runs Oldbury and Wylfa sites including three others and Magnox South which runs Berkeley and four other sites, and they expect to re-merge by the end of this year. Read it all..

Press NDA 27th October 2010

The NDA and URENCO Ltd have signed a set of non-binding commercial principles to support a potential transfer of the NDA-owned Capenhurst site to URENCO. Formal discussions will now commence with an aim of achieving final agreement by mid 2011. Read it all..

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The National Skills Academy for Nuclear in partnership with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), URENCO and the National Nuclear Laboratory are rolling out a fifth round of their Nuclear Bursary Award Scheme.  Read it all..

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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has published the UK Strategy for the Management of Solid Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLW) from the Nuclear Industry. Read it all..

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Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd is updating its workforce about the changing shape of the site closure plan and efforts to bring new industry to the area.

The existing programme is being significantly reworked to bring it into line with an annual cap on funding from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced earlier this year. Read it all..

NDA has set out details of how it could implement the UK Government’s solution to deal with higher activity radioactive waste through disposal deep underground in a geological disposal facility. This process will be based on a voluntarism and partnership approach. Read it all..

The NDA has appointed Bruce McKirdy as the Managing Director of its Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD).

The NDA is the organisation responsible for implementation of geological disposal in the UK and the RWMD is being formed into a wholly owned subsidiary of the NDA. In due course it will become the NDA’s Site Licence Company responsible for delivering a Geological Disposal Facility.

Bruce has spent over twenty five years within the UK nuclear industry and over 10 years experience in geological disposal, most recently leading RWMD. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has experience in all aspects of radioactive waste management including development and assessment of geological repository concepts and R & D related to long-term waste management.

Bruce said:

“I am delighted to have been given this opportunity and look forward to continuing our work with a range of stakeholders including Government, local communities and the nuclear industry to deliver geological disposal for higher activity radioactive wastes.”

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has today begun a formal consultation process with its staff regarding the potential impact on jobs from a proposed new structure emerging from an organisational effectiveness review underway since January 2010.

CEO Tony Fountain said:

“The NDA’s current organisational structure was designed for its start-up phase, during which considerable progress has been achieved. We have moved a 19,000-strong workforce from the public to the private sector by fundamentally restructuring the industry through the creation of six Site Licence Companies under the ownership of some of the leading companies in the world. With these arrangements in place the time is right for our organisation to more closely reflect our future role which is to set direction and hold our contractors to account for performance delivery. It is also right that, at a time when the NDA is targeting significant reductions in overhead and support costs across its Site Licence Companies, we show leadership and shape the NDA into the most efficient and effective organisation we can be.”

The new organisational structure represents a reduction of around 30% in the NDA’s current staffing of just under 300. The new structure and the terms of any subsequent redundancies are the subject of a consultation period of at least 30 days with staff representatives.

The NDA has delivered over £7 billion of income and made year on year efficiencies in its first five years of operation. It has produced the first UK-wide decommissioning and clean-up strategy and restructured the civil public sector-owned nuclear industry to enable leading international companies to bring to the task their capability and experience from around the world.

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Richard Waite, NDA Executive Director, Delivery has been appointed CH2M HILL’s Managing Director Commercial Nuclear, Europe & Middle East. He will take up his new post in September.

Richard has spent five years with the NDA from its early days and held leadership positions as Divisional Director Strategy and was acting Chief Executive for over a year.

Tony Fountain, NDA CEO said:

“Richard has played a vital part in establishing the good reputation of the authority through its first five years. He has provided leadership right across the organisation and I and my executive team wish him well in his new role.”