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..

SL team and contracting partners start New Year by celebrating a decade of safe working.

The Solid Waste Operating Unit Project and Construction Team, has clocked up over 10 years of working without a lost time accident. The team from the waste effluent disposition directorate includes Sellafield Ltd, main contractor and sub-contractor personnel. Read it all..

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Westinghouse Electric Company will team with a consortium of The Shaw Group (NYSE: SHAW) and the U.K. construction firm Laing O’Rourke as the constructor for the pursuit of new nuclear plant business in the United Kingdom. Read it all..

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced the dates for the Dounreay Parent Body Organisation (PBO) Competition Industry Event. Read it all..

WORK to decommission the Primary Separation Plant at Sellafield has taken a major step forward with the removal of the entire redundant inventory held in the top section of one of the process cells.  Read it all..

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The Government and the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is investing £8 million to expand existing civil nuclear research facilities within The University of Manchester.

The funding has been announced by Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, as part of the Government’s commitment to new low carbon sustainable growth. Read it all..

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London, UK, 2 December 2009 — Malcolm Wicks MP, Prime Minister’s Special Representative on International Energy Issues; former Minister of State for Energy has agreed to present the case for a new generation of nuclear reactors in the context of the challenges that face the UK and the global community. 

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The National Skills Academy for Nuclear is celebrating the launch of its first online training course, the Award for Nuclear Industry Awareness.  Read it all..

Alan Coley – appointed to National Skills Academy for Nuclear

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Alan Coley, Head of Capability and Business Transformation for the Environment service stream at support services company VT Group, has been appointed to the main Board of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear. Read it all..

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Interim assessment reports for two nuclear power station designs being considered for construction in the UK have been made public.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published the reports on Step 3 of its Generic Design Assessment of the designs put forward by EDF/AREVA and Westinghouse. Read it all..