Studsvik has signed a 7-year contract with EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited worth 13.5 MSEK per year for carrying out materials testing on irradiated fuel and fuel components from AGR reactors (Advanced Gas cooled Reactors). The contract may be extended for a further 10 years. Read it all..

Babcock Dounreay Partnership is the preferred bidder in the competition to take ownership of Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, after a two-year public procurement process.  Read it all..

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Magnox Press Release

Magnox has awarded a framework contract worth £304 million for de-planting, demolition and bulk asbestos removal across 10 nuclear reactor sites in the UK. Read it all..

NuGen receives planning permission for preliminary site investigation and characterisation works Read it all..

The British Safety Council has named Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd one of the country’s top companies for its standards of environmental management.

Britain’s leading workplace safety body audited the systems in place at the site to protect the environment from harm during decommissioning of the major chemical and radiological hazards. Read it all..

Shortly after the Fukushima disaster in March, the European Council (EC) requested that each member state with nuclear power facilities ensured that operators conduct ‘stress tests’ of each facility.

The tests are led by questions that have been raised following the events at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was struck by an earthquake, and subsequently overwhelmed by the resultant tsunami, causing a loss of power and loss of cooling. Read it all..

Sellafield Ltd has taken an important step towards decommissioning a 60-year-old storage pond originally built to store fuel from the Windscale Pile Reactors, by retrieving the very first nuclear fuel out of the pond since the 1960s.

The Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) was the very first nuclear fuel storage pond constructed at Sellafield and to this day remains the largest open air nuclear storage pond in the world. The pond was built to store nuclear fuel and isotopes from the Windscale Reactors that produced nuclear materials for the defence industry. The Windscales Piles as they are better known never actually generated electricity, but were the precursor to our Calder Hall reactor – the first commercial reactor in the world. Read it all..

Farnborough, United Kingdom – BAE Systems has today announced nearly 3,000 potential job losses within its Military Air & Information (MAI) and Shared Services businesses and at its Head Office. This announcement is in response to changes in key programmes and the need to maintain competitiveness through offering affordable products and services to customers. Read it all..

Press Release

ACTUS joint venture awarded £67 million decommissioning contract at Trawsfynydd nuclear site. Read it all..