NDA
A consortium of 3 firms: Washington International, Amec and Areva has been announced as the preferred bidder for the Sellafield contract.
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Here is how community and industry figures have been greeting the news that Nuclear Management Partners Ltd are in line to be Sellafield’s new parent company.
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Who Nuclear Management Partners are.
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Hinkley
British Energy has confirmed it wants to build two new nuclear plants “as soon as possible” and has earmarked land next to Hinkley Point, in Somerset. Hinkley already has two power stations, A and B, but Paul Spence, head of strategy at British Energy, says the company is “very keen” to build further plants, C and D.Mr Spence said: “We are very keen to be involved in Hinkley C and D. We have been looking at the prospect of a new twin station here for a good few years.
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Sellafield
A new nuclear power station should be considered at Sellafield, campaigners have said. The Cumbrian plant is to be decommissioned but local business leaders who believe a replacement would help boost the local economy.
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SELLAFIELD workers are in danger of missing out on “a golden goodbye” bonus of up to £2,000 a head. The 10,000 strong workforce is in line for the payout from BNFL when Sellafield changes ownership. But The Whitehaven News understands there is a risk of the bonus not being paid if the workforce decides to take industrial action to press their pay claim.
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Dounreay
THE leader of one of North America’s most successful economic development programmes is helping to devise a way forward for the Highland economy post-Dounreay. Dr Gerald Gordon, the president of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority in Virginia, has been asked to recommend ways to maintain and develop skilled jobs in the region when the nuclear site shuts down.
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Radhealth
A LONG-RUNNING battle over whether to release childhood leukaemia statistics has been referred back to the Scottish Information Commissioner by the House of Lords. Commissioner Kevin Dunion must establish whether the information held can be “anonymised” sufficiently so that it does no …
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Czech Republic
CEZ has requested the Czech ministry of environment to carry out the environmental impact assessment of the proposed completion of the Temelin nuclear power plant.
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Syria
Letter from Norman Dombey: Ian Black interviews an unnamed colleague of ambassador Carmon’s (June 25) and reports his claim that “Syria was planning to supply Iran with spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing into weapons-grade plutonium”. This claim belongs to the same fantasyland as wartime American centrifuges. Iran has a programme to produce low-enriched uranium, which it says is for peaceful purposes, although it would be relatively easy, as I pointed out in a previous letter (November 22) to refigure the centrifuges to produce high-enriched uranium for a weapon. But unlike North Korea, Iran has never had a reprocessing plant to convert spent fuel into plutonium.
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France
France’s nuclear safety watchdog has ordered a plant in the country’s south to temporarily close after a uranium leak polluted the local water supply. The plant’s operator has been told to improve safety procedures at the site. Waste containing unenriched uranium leaked into two rivers at the Tricastin plant at Bollene, 40km (25 miles) from the popular tourist city of Avignon.
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French authorities ordered Friday the temporary closure of a nuclear treatment plant in a popular tourist region of southern France after a uranium leak polluted the local water supply. But site operator Socatri, a subsidiary of French nuclear giant Areva, said it would permanently shut down the facility at the Tricastin nuclear plant in Provence as part of a previously planned upgrade. France’s ASN nuclear safety authority cited a “series of faults and human negligence that is not acceptable” when it ordered the closure following an inspection at the plant on Thursday.
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