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..

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

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A multi million pound Nitrogen Generation Plant is to be installed at the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo at Sellafield, replacing the 30 year old existing facility. Read it all..

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EDF has submitted its 19 supplementary safety reports for the nuclear sites that are currently operating and those that are under construction to the ASN. This in-depth review of the design of power plants post-Fukushima was launched at the request of the French government, in accordance with the specifications published by the ASN on 5th May 2011. Read it all..

Following a considerable amount of effort, dedication and professionalism by all those involved, WVP line 3 has been safely returned to full operations within a few days of the original schedule following an outage spanning 18 months.

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Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has today announced that it will collaborate with Russian state-owned atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, in the area of civil nuclear power. The agreement between the two companies follows today’s joint announcement by UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, and Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, in which the two countries pledged to work more closely in  a number of areas, including civil nuclear power. Read it all..

Magnox has launched its new website: www.magnoxsites.com

The new-look website covers all 10 locations which are managed by Magnox Ltd, on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Read it all..

Cogent the Skills Council for the Nuclear Industry and partner organisation the National Skills Academy for Nuclear are delighted to announce their fourth collaborative UK Nuclear Skills Awards Dinner, which will be held at the Palace Hotel, Manchester on the 22nd March 2012. Read it all..

The largest single building at Bradwell nuclear power station is being demolished over the next few weeks. This landmark event is being filmed by a static camera on the site, and you can watch the progress by clicking here: http://www.magnoxsouthsites.com/bringing-the-house-down Read it all..