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..

Press Release NDA

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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Press Release
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..

Press Release NDA
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..

Press Release15 July 2009

Dounreay aerial view

 

The first part of the Dounreay competition industry event will be hosted in Caithness by the Dounreay Stakeholder Group (DSG), with support from the NDA.

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Press by Dounreay

Dounreay aerial view

Dounreay is well on its way to destroying the largest single hazard left over from the fast reactor research and development programme.

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NDA Press Release 22nd June 2009

NDA have awarded TWI Ltd a contract to demonstrate the capability of lasers in decommissioning nuclear facilities. The contract, worth almost £1m, will see the Cambridge-based materials engineering specialist set up technology demonstrations to show how modern high power lasers can be used to remove contaminated surfaces of concrete and cut up metal pipework and process vessels.

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