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AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announces the acquisition of Entec Holdings Ltd (Entec), the UK-based environmental and engineering consultancy, from its owner-managers and investors, Growth Capital Partners, for an initial consideration of £61.2 million. The acquisition has been made on a cash free/debt free basis and the consideration has been settled in cash. Further payments may be made, subject to retention and performance. Read it all..

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The original stack from the Dounreay Fast Reactor has ended its days as a pile of scrap metal.

Before the cutting work could start, Dounreay workers climbed inside the stack to decontaminate the interior, and remove the remaining pipe work. Read it all..

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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..

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Support services company VT Group has won a multi-million pound bid to support the Sellafield Site statutory monitoring requirements through its Environmental Laboratory, based at the Westlakes Science and Technology Park, near Whitehaven, in Cumbria. Read it all..

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Sellafield Ltd and International Nuclear Services, working in partnership, are in the process of transporting a flask of solid highly active waste (HAW) to the harbour of Vlissingen in The Netherlands. Read it all..

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Amec boasts of an order book strong at £3.2 billion Read it all..

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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..

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The Health and Safety Executive has welcomed the publication of a second report into its Nuclear Directorate from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A team of senior nuclear regulators from across the world visited the UK in October 2009 to perform a second peer review of ND’s work in regulating safety at Britain’s nuclear facilities, the first being in 2006.

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Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has announced changes to its senior management team.

The changes allow the current parent body organisation and its partners to recall and replace senior figures prior to the start of the NDA competition for a new parent body. They also reflect a natural turnover to refresh the business. 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..