Dr Todd Wright is to replace Bill Poulson as Managing Director of Sellafield Ltd.

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 £400 million clean-up project on Europe’s largest nuclear site in Cumbria has created around
175 new highly skilled jobs at the Interserve Pioneer Point facility in Cheshire.

Interserve Industrial who were awarded a contract with process engineering contractor Costain
Oil & Gas Process Ltd, principal contractor for the Evaporator D project at the Sellafield nuclear
site in September last year, have now taken over space in a large indoor facility located at the
230,000 sq ft Pioneer Point facility, opposite Interserve’s existing facility on the Poole Hall Road
Industrial Estate to carry out the module assembly and testing work. Read it all..

Press NDA 27th October 2010

The NDA and URENCO Ltd have signed a set of non-binding commercial principles to support a potential transfer of the NDA-owned Capenhurst site to URENCO. Formal discussions will now commence with an aim of achieving final agreement by mid 2011. Read it all..

Press Release

Acclaimed author Hunter Davies is to play a key role in telling the story of the Sellafield nuclear plant.

He has agreed to edit a book featuring the memories of current and ex-nuclear workers and others as part of a large scale oral history project.
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Press Release

Costain’s current work on the Evaporator-D plant at Sellafield which is currently the largest nuclear construction project in the UK gives the company a strong position to benefit from approaching nuclear power plant construction contracts, believes its new Nuclear Development Director.

“The prospects are very good. There will be up to 12 nuclear reactors built in the next 10 years, a market that’s worth around £50billion,” says Alistair Smith. My role is to help Costain win some of the major opportunities in building these new nuclear power stations.”

Costain has formed a consortium, ConstructEnergy, with Sir Robert McAlpine, Hochtief and Heitkamp to take advantage of the potential opportunities in the nuclear new build sector. Costain will bring its experience from its current nuclear construction projects and its ongoing interests across the Power market.

Although the country’s economic situation has led to the Government cutting back on spending, Smith believes that the nuclear reactor construction programme will go ahead, both because nuclear power can be the cheapest form of generating low carbon power and because the construction programme will require no Government subsidies.

Additionally, with North Sea oil and gas in rapid decline and many of the older generation of nuclear power station approaching closure, new generating capacity is urgently needed. “Power utilities know that they need to invest in a mix of power generation technologies, including renewables, efficient gas power plants and nuclear to provide the country with secure, low-carbon and affordable electricity,” Smith commented.

Smith, 50, who has recently joined Costain from consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), hopes to bring a lifetime’s experience in the nuclear sector to win work for Costain.

Before his five years with PB, where he was Director of Nuclear services, he was with the National Nuclear Corporation (NNC) for 23 years. NNC was the organisation that designed and built the previous generation of nuclear power plants. He is Chairman of the Power Industries Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and holds the same position with the Industry Affairs Group in the Nuclear Industry Association, which represents the interests of industrial members in discussions with clients, Government and regulatory bodies.

Sellafield Ltd has today announced that the contract for the Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility project has been awarded to the HALEF Partnership, a consortium comprising AMEC, AREVA and Balfour Beatty.

The contract requires the consortium to work in partnership with Sellafield Ltd to further develop the concept design up to a point where the project definition and design can be fixed in order to bound the subsequent scope, schedule and cost for the construction phase of the project.

Sellafield Visit by Chris Huhne Secretary of State for Department of Energy and Climate Change

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Sellafield Ltd was delighted to welcome Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Department of Energy and Climate Change, and Charles Hendry, Energy Minister, to the Sellafield site yesterday (Wednesday 26 May).

The visit also involved senior NDA personnel including Chief Executive Tony Fountain, Sellafield Programme Director Ian Hudson and Head of Communications Jon Phillips. Read it all..

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The first major project to be completed by Sellafield Ltd, under the ownership of Nuclear Management Partners (NMP) has just been delivered – ahead of schedule and under budget – for the NDA, Sellafield Ltd’s customer and the site owner. Read it all..

Press Release

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has allocated £1.5bn to Sellafield Ltd out of its overall budget of £2.8bn for 2010/11.  This is a significant investment which is slightly higher than expenditure in 2009/2010 and recognises the NDA’s priority of focussing its resources on tackling our highest hazards. As stated in our Business Plan, published in March 2010, we require all of our sites to deliver efficiencies so we can maximise resources to progress the clean up and decommissioning mission.  This is particularly important at a time of significant pressure on public expenditure. Read it all..

Press Release

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) yesterday, made an announcement about the future of the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP). We have a duty to monitor the performance of all plants within our ownership in order to secure best value for money for the UK and to fulfil contractual obligations to customers. It is also required to ensure compliance with UK policy that the materials from reprocessing should be returned to overseas customers. Read it all..