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UK looks to nuclear manufacturing future

Corporate

18 June 2013

Forgemasters TSB (Image: SFIL)_48Work has begun on two collaborative research programs to develop new forging and casting techniques for nuclear components, while UK manufacturers are invited to apply for funding to help them compete in the nuclear industry.

Innovation cash for back-end technology

Waste and Recycling

06 June 2013

Sizewell A defuelling (Magnox)_48Three innovative technologies to reduce the costs of treating and storing nuclear industry wastes are to receive funding in Britain, while a major decommissioning milestone is being celebrated at one of the country's first-generation sites.

Contract to lay out new Wylfa plant

New Nuclear

16 May 2013

Wylfa (Magnox Sites)_48Work to develop the design of Horizon Nuclear Power's proposed new plant at Wylfa in the UK is set to start.

Fine for misdirected waste shipment

Regulation and Safety

17 June 2013

Sellafield ariel (Sellafield Ltd)-48Sellafield Ltd has been fined £700,000 ($1.1 million) for mistakenly sending four bags of low-level waste to a conventional landfill instead of the correct facility.

Dounreay waste retrieval deal

Waste and Recycling

20 May 2013

Dounreay silo waste (DSRL)UK-based engineering company James Fisher Nuclear has won a £5 million ($7.6 million) contract for the retrieval and processing of radioactive waste from a 65-metre deep shaft and a wet silo at the Dounreay site.

Dounreay raffinate prepared for disposal

Waste and Recycling

10 May 2013

Dounreay raffinate drumming (DSRL) 48Most of the highly active liquid waste produced from the reprocessing of Material Test Reactor fuel at the UK's Dounreay site has now been cemented into drums ready for disposal.