ONR Climate Workshops
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) recently hosted the final of a three-part series of workshops on its regulation of climate change, co-produced with non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The...
View ArticleUranium Costs
Uranium’s current supply and demand dynamics are enough to cause a price spike. But when financial entities like the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (TSX:U.U) are added to the picture its gains become...
View ArticleTrawsfynydd
Eight members of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) visited Trawsfyndd on 13 September to see how radioactive wastes were being managed there and how its experience could be factored...
View ArticleRadhealth
In the case of Semipalatinsk, the former Soviet Union’s nuclear testing grounds, the exposure was due to the passage of radioactive clouds. The area and the people were exposed gradually not only...
View ArticleCybersecurity
A multinational nuclear power company has been hit by an official crackdown because of cyber security failures that critics warned were a “very real and present danger”. Oversight of EDF Energy by the...
View ArticleNuclear Security
Recent data acquired under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA 2000) unveils a number of drone sightings over UK nuclear facilities from 2021 to 2023. The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) has...
View ArticleCybersecurity
France-headquartered energy giant EDF has been singled out by the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and placed under significantly enhanced regulatory attention for cyber security – the highest...
View ArticleCalder Hall
Calder Hall, the world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear power station to enter operation, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II this month, 67 years ago. Whitehaven News 23rd Oct 2023 read more » The...
View ArticleCybersecurity
The UK government’s nuclear safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), has put nuclear company EDF Energy on notice over its cybersecurity practices. In the chief nuclear inspector’s...
View ArticleHunterston Port
SSE Energy Solutions has signed a deal to provide renewable energy for the proposed Hunterston Port and Resource Campus (Hunterston PARC). It comes as Peel Ports Group, the UK’s second largest port...
View ArticleDecommissioning
The Dalton Nuclear Institute at The University of Manchester has won the 2023 Bhattacharyya Award in recognition of its “stellar” academia-industry collaboration with the nuclear decommissioning...
View ArticleHinkley Point A & B
When Hinkley Point B. opened in 1976, its two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs) were state of the art. But over nearly half a century of generation, cracks developed in their graphite cores, creating...
View ArticleNuclear History
Atoms for Peace had a nice ring to it. But it was a fantasy at best, at worst, a lie. Atoms for Peace was never the intention. Atoms for war, as it turned out, was brewing in the background even before...
View ArticleMagnox
Magnox Ltd has changed its brand and from 31st October 2023 will be known as Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS). Chief Executive Officer, Rob Fletcher said: “This is more than a change of sign – it is...
View ArticleCapenhurst
Following a “rigorous procurement process”, US engineering firm Bechtel has been selected by uranium enrichment services provider Urenco to support the expansion of the Tails Management Facility (TMF)...
View ArticleNuclear Restoration Services
Magnox has become Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) ahead of taking ownership of closing EDF nuclear sites. NRS, part of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group, is responsible for...
View ArticleUrenco
Bechtel announced it has been selected by Urenco, a supplier of nuclear enrichment services and fuel cycle products, to support the expansion of a key facility responsible for processing uranium tails,...
View ArticleUrenco
Bechtel to expand key depleted uranium processing plant in Cheshire. Bechtel has been selected by nuclear enrichment specialist Urenco to provide front end engineering design (Feed) for the expansion...
View ArticleChapelcross
Chapelcross site hires nearly 40 new staff in two years. The facility has also taken on 10 trainees and apprentices since Richard Murray became site director. The job figures were revealed when he was...
View ArticleAGRs
EDF Nuclear Operations has chosen US-based engineering consultancy Jacobs to carry out resource-management operations at eight nuclear facilities in the UK. Under an existing project management...
View ArticleAGRs
Jacobs will support EDF’s eight UK nuclear power stations, including four Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) stations, manage the transition at three other AGR stations, and supervise the operation and...
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Jacobs has been appointed on a new Project Management Resources (PMR) framework contract with EDF Nuclear Operations, licensee of eight nuclear power stations which account for approximately 16% of the...
View ArticleHeysham & Hydrogen
Nuclear fuelled industry is coming a step closer to reality with a project that will supply hydrogen to an asphalt plant. The Bay Hydrogen Hub is being supported by a £6.1m (US$7.4m) commitment from...
View ArticleNuclear Accidents
Kate Brown: Health physicists fear lawsuits more than nuclear accidents. In 1987, a year after the Chernobyl accident, the US Health Physics Society met in Columbia, Maryland. Health physicists are...
View ArticleRadioactive Contamination
Glacier surfaces in certain parts of the world contain concerning amounts of toxic radioactive materials, a result of weapons testing and nuclear accidents such as the Chernobyl disaster in 1986....
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