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Supplier awards shortlist announced (NDA - Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) (English)
(Source: NDA - Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) Five categories remain the same as previous years, with a new award to recognise skills development: capability and capacity technology implementation SME innovation collaboration exports Minister's...
Public Technologies
Minister for Employment praises Balfour Beatty for creating jobs in the North West of England (Balfour Beatty plc) (English)
(Source: Balfour Beatty plc) News listings 20 October 2016 Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, welcomed the Minister for Employment, Damien Hinds, to its Pipe Fabrication Facility in Bromborough yesterday. The Minister's visit, to...
Public Technologies
Connecting with... Andy Rope, Sales Engineer at AJT Engineering Ltd. (EIC - Energy Industries Council) (English)
(Source: EIC - Energy Industries Council) 19 October, 2016 AJT Engineering specialises in the supply of engineering sub-contract services offering our clients full turnkey solutions. Operating across a variety of sectors, AJT has the ability to...
Public Technologies
North West top apprentices and apprentice employers announced (Skills Funding Agency) (English)
(Source: Skills Funding Agency) Top apprentices and employers from the North West have today been announced at the regional round of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2016. The awards now in their 13th year, showcase many success stories and the...
BBC News
Heathrow is top business rate payer in England and Wales (English)
London's Heathrow airport will continue to pay the highest rate bill of any business in England and Wales when new rateable values are applied in 2017. The airport's annual bill will be £118m, according to calculations by the property surveyors CVS....
Scotsman
Book review: The Marches, by Rory Stewart (English)
The great journalist HL Mencken once wrote, "For every complicated problem there is a solution which is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong.” This might serve as an epigraph to Rory Stewart’s engaging, intelligent and ultimately...
Public Technologies
New University Technical Colleges open their doors (Manchester Metropolitan University) (English)
(Source: Manchester Metropolitan University) School of Engineering supports two North West centres Warrington UTC. Credit: Warrington Guardian. THE School of Engineering is proud to welcome the opening of the Crewe Engineering and Design University...
The Guardian
Wind direction is critical in devising response to nuclear disaster (English)
In order to gauge the spread of radioactivity in the event of a leak, authorities need to consider the prevailing conditions...
Skiddle
Happened 0000 tickets (English)
New River Studios in London Friday 7th October 2016 8:00pm til 11:00pm Minimum Age: 18 Happened 0000 presents Shelley Parker, and live debut from Ex Geo, Typeface and Aa3_Tzt.[RN500]. Event Info Venue Buy tickets securely Type of Ticket Price...
Belfast Telegraph
Why only a full, independent public inquiry will allay fears about safety at Sellafield (English)
The BBC's Panorama programme - like BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight - is at the cutting edge of investigative journalism. And when they produce a programme such as the recent investigation into safety at the Sellafield nuclear site, we should take...
Public Technologies
Proposed Tender Offer and Notice of GM (Avingtrans plc) (English)
(Source: Avingtrans plc) 3 October 2016 Avingtrans plc ('Avingtrans' or the 'Company') Proposed Tender Offer and Notice of General Meeting Further to the preliminary results announcement for the year ended 31 May 2016 published on 27 September 2016,...
BBC News
Cancer clusters at nuclear sites 'not linked to radiation' (English)
An investigation into clusters of cancer cases around Sellafield and Dounreay nuclear sites has found they were very unlikely to have been caused by radiation exposure. A report from the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment...
The Guardian
Hinkley Point C developers face £7.2bn cleanup bill at end of nuclear plant's life (English)
French and Chinese developers will be the first nuclear operators in the UK that will have to pay to decommission the site...
Public Technologies
Atkins awarded major nuclear contract by US Department of Energy - 29 September 2016 (WS Atkins plc) (English)
(Source: WS Atkins plc) News releases 2016 Atkins awarded major nuclear contract by US Department of Energy - 29 September 2016 Atkins awarded major nuclear contract by US Department of Energy - 29 September 2016 Atkins has been selected by the U.S....
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Apprenticeship standard: non-destructive testing engineer (Skills Funding Agency) (English)
(Source: Skills Funding Agency) This document is relevant to: those looking to apply for an apprenticeship employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships available This standard is...
Public Technologies
Final Results (Avingtrans plc) (English)
(Source: Avingtrans plc) Avingtrans plc ('Avingtrans' or the 'Group') Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 May 2016 Avingtrans plc, which designs, manufactures and supplies critical components, modules and associated services to the energy,...
Huffington Post
All Things Nuclear: Military And Civil Use - Legitimacy, Legacy, And Austerity (English)
I have never agreed with T S Eliot's proclamation (in The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock) that 'April is the cruelest month'. But then Eliot was writing in 1915, before the awesome splitting of the atom and all that nuclear fission has subsequently...
Public Technologies
Kier Group Preliminary Results 2016 (Kier Group plc) (English)
(Source: Kier Group plc) Kier Group plc, a leading property, residential, construction and services group, announces its preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2016 Breadth of portfolio and order book of £8.7bn provide visibility and...
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Decontamination milestone reached at Bradwell (NDA - Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) (English)
(Source: NDA - Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) The complex clean-up, which covers an area similar to a rugby field, followed 4 years of hard work after draining and stabilising 'ponds', in 2012. These ponds were previously used to temporarily...
BBC News
Radioactive material flown from Scotland to US (English)
Radioactive material that was being kept at the Scottish nuclear power site Dounreay has been flown to the US. Saturday's flight was the first movement of material held at the Caithness plant to the US since an announcement in February. David...
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Risk of another Chernobyl or Fukushima type accident plausible, experts say (University of Sussex) (English)
(Source: University of Sussex) In a new analysis of nuclear accidents, researchers at the University of Sussex and ETH Zurich provide a cost in US dollars for each incident. Biggest-ever statistical analysis of historical accidents suggests that...
Public Technologies
EDF Energy's Hinkley Point C decision reached - CEO comment (Turner & Townsend plc) (English)
(Source: Turner & Townsend plc) Vincent Clancy, CEO of Turner & Townsend, commented: 'The Government announcement for Hinkley Point C is a defining moment, not just for the infrastructure sector but for the UK economy as a whole. 'We are...
Public Technologies
Government should oppose construction of Hinkley Point Nuclear Plant – Adams (Sinn Féin) (English)
(Source: Sinn Féin) 15 September, 2016 - by Gerry Adams TD Sinn Féin Louth TD Gerry Adams has called on the government to 'vigorously oppose both politically and legally today's decision by the...
The Guardian
It’s absurd that Hinkley is going ahead while cheaper, cleaner options are blocked (English)
It’s finally happened. After weeks of speculation, and despite a hastily called review by Theresa May, the government has given a green light to the most expensive white elephant of a project in British history. With Hinkley Point, squandermania has...
Reuters
CORRECTED--Korean power firm KEPCO near joining UK nuclear plant project-FT (English)
LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - State-controlled South Korean electric power utility KEPCO is closing in on investing in a 10 billion-pound ($13 billion) project in Britain to construct a new nuclear power plant near Sellafield, northwest England, the...
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GMB welcomes Cumbria power plant talks (GMB - Britain's General Union) (English)
(Source: GMB - Britain's General Union) Tuesday, September 13, 2016 GMB Welcomes Investment Talks For New Nuclear Power Station In Cumbria GMB has long campaigned for investment in a nuclear centre of excellence for Cumbria. GMB, the union for energy...
BBC News
UK nuclear power station project 'in talks' for cash injection (English)
The developers behind Europe's biggest new nuclear power station are in talks with potential overseas investors for the £10bn project in Cumbria. Joint venture group Nugen said it was talking to banks and foreign nuclear firms about the plant, which...
Reuters
Korean power firm KEPCO near joining UK nuclear plant project-FT (English)
LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - State-controlled South Korean electric power utility KEPCO is closing in on investing in a 10 billion-pound ($13 billion) project in Britain to construct a new nuclear power plant near Sellafield, northwest England, the...
Public Technologies
New Hub opens for nuclear energy research and education (University of Bristol) (English)
(Source: University of Bristol) A new Hub for nuclear energy that will become a leading centre in the South West for academic research, education and innovation will be officially opened at the University of Bristol today, Monday 12 September....
Irish Independent
Clear and present danger (English)
The run-down nuclear plant at Sellafield is...
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