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Local Government Minister Marcus Jones urged festive households to continue the season of goodwill and reuse or recycle their Christmas trees.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Celebrations are taking place at our Harwell site this festive season as the former research centre, birthplace of the UK nuclear industry, reaches the grand old age of 70.
Energy Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe has today announced the appointment of Tom Smith as Chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
Radioactive sludge has been transferred out of the world’s oldest nuclear fuel pond for the very first time, marking a historic achievement in the decades-long programme to clean up Sellafield.
An innovative snake-like robot has been developed to cut up items in contaminated or difficult-to-access areas of nuclear facilities.
Fishing gear used by trawlers to dredge for scallops has been re-designed for a new market scooping sludge from spent nuclear fuel ponds.
Environment Agency cracks down on illegal waste carriers in the Staines area as part of the ‘Right Waste Right Place’ initiative.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property, delivered the UK’s Statement to the IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Security supporting the IAEA’s pivotal role in global nuclear secur…
Supply chain plans and reformed Nuclear Industry Council to aid in the UK’s nuclear renaissance.
Speech by Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property at the NIA industry conference.
NDA welcomes the launch of the Nuclear Skills Strategic Plan to ensure UK nuclear employers, including the supply chain, can recruit skilled people at the required rate to meet the sector’s ambitious forward programme.
Environment Agency enforcement teams have visited 21 sites across the Thames Valley today (Wednesday 16 November) in a bid to stamp out waste crime.
The painstaking task of removing tens of thousands of fuel rods from the world's first nuclear power station is halfway to completion.
Experiments are under way in Switzerland to investigate how radionuclides could migrate, via groundwater, through buffer material in a geological disposal facility (GDF).
Radioactively contaminated mercury could be solidified, enabling it to be successfully disposed of.
Research is under way into alternative methods of analysing one of the radioactive isotopes found in decommissioning waste.
'Latro', an agile robotic spider, is one of the most recent additions to the array of tools available to deal with nuclear material in fuel ponds.
This new approach to demolishing a highly contaminated nuclear facility has many benefits.
A trial has demonstrated the specialist divers can successfully retrieve the contents of spent nuclear fuel ponds.
Several technologies are being tested to evaluate their effectiveness in measuring radioactivity levels in concrete.
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