Renew has announced that it has reached an agreement (subject to shareholder approval) to purchase the entire issued share capital of Amco for a cash consideration of £19.8 million. Read it all..

The Magnox North and Magnox South sites are now all managed by Magnox Limited. Their work includes optimising the generation of electricity at Wylfa and Oldbury, facing up to the challenge of accelerating the move to Care and Maintenance at Bradwell and Trawsfynydd, and making sure that we continue to deliver value for money at the other sites in the business.

For the next few months the Magnox North and Magnox South site groups will be operated as Business Groups of Magnox Limited.

HSE Nuclear Directorate (ND) has completed a re-licensing assessment in order to facilitate the reunification of Magnox North and Magnox South into one entity, Magnox Limited.

The Magnox companies, owned by Energy Solutions, are contracted by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to decommission eight Magnox nuclear power stations and operate Wylfa and Oldbury nuclear power stations, both in their final few months of generating electricity.

Energy Solutions asked ND for regulatory permission and for re-licensing of each of the five Magnox South sites, to facilitate the merger of the Magnox companies, which when combined, would be renamed Magnox Limited. 

As part of re-licensing, ND carried out an assessment of the applicant’s organisational capability, to ensure that it remains adequate for it to manage nuclear safety effectively, and to discharge its obligations as a nuclear site licence holder.

Consulting with and working closely with its nuclear co-regulator, the Environment Agency, ND worked with the Magnox companies and the NDA, to ensure that all safety, legal, environmental issues and permits were fully addressed before considering their application to reintegrate into one licensed company.

The assessment did not identify any issues which would prevent a decision to relicense the Magnox South sites into Magnox North, so in December, permission was granted for the re-integration. This took affect with the new site licences coming into force on 5 January 2011, allowing Magnox North to proceed with the management of change supporting the integration and the creation of a new Magnox North Limited board and executive.

Summary report of the assessment

The Nuclear industry’s two major companies Magnox North and Magnox South are to reintegrate after just 2 years as separate companies.

Magnox Electric Limited separated in October 2008 to create Magnox North which runs Oldbury and Wylfa sites including three others and Magnox South which runs Berkeley and four other sites, and they expect to re-merge by the end of this year. Read it all..

Press Release

A significant step forward in hazard reduction work on the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond has been taken at Sellafield with the commissioning trial of a new pond purge unit to treat radioactive pond water.

The expected benefits are a reduction in radioactive dose rates in the immediate vicinity of the fuel storage pond, a reduction in aerial discharges to the atmosphere and reduced operator doses during fuel retrievals. Read it all..

NDA Press Release

The last of more than 10,000 drums of Magnox Depleted Uranium (MDU) left Chapelcross this week, signifying the reduction of a major hazard associated with the UK’s civil nuclear legacy. Read it all..

Press release

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..

Press Release

A MAJOR milestone in radiological risk reduction and nuclear clean up has been reached on the Sellafield site.
 
Over 2,300 m3 of historic medium active (MA) solvent has now been transferred and processed through Sellafield’s Solvent Treatment Plant (STP), representing over ten years work by the teams involved. Read it all..

The Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) Store at Trawsfynydd Site was officially opened on Thursday September 17^th by Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Assembly Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd and Presiding Officer of the Welsh Assembly Government. Read it all..

Another key milestone in the defuelling of the four Chapelcross Reactors was reached on Thursday 3 September when defuelling started  on Reactor 3.  Read it all..