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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..

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..

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 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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Magnox North is celebrating after being unveiled as the winner of the ‘Productivity Category’ in the ‘Idea of the Year’ competition 2009.

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2 November 2009

The sale of UKAEA Ltd, the commercial arm of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, to Babcock International Group has been completed. 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..

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One of the most demanding clean-up jobs ever undertaken in the history of nuclear energy is gathering pace. It involves the recovery and packaging of more than 1500 tonnes of radioactive waste that has lain submerged for up to 50 years in the ground beneath Britain’s abandoned experiment with fast reactors at Dounreay. Read it all..

James Fisher and Sons plc announces the purchase of MB Faber Ltd (Faber) for up to £5.25 million in cash. The consideration consists of £4.0 million net of cash payable on completion with up to a further £1.25 million in March 2010, provided the EBITDA (earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortisation) for the year ended 31 December 2009, exceeds £1.225 million. Read it all..