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Research is vital – and we need more of it
Last year, Stan Gordelier, former Head of the Nuclear Development Division of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, became the first independent Chair of the NDA's Research Board. He has more than 40 years experience in the nuclear sector and is a specialist in waste management and decommissioning.
"...Research and Development is the key to improvement in each of these areas, and this impacts far more than just clearing up the past. If the UK is to achieve its objective of a significant nuclear contribution to the nation's energy mix again, we must demonstrate effective management capability for the new liabilities that will arise."
Read more about 'Research is vital – and we need more of it'...
04 April 2013
Nuclear history captured for posterity
More than 70 years worth of information from the UK civil nuclear industry will be brought together at a new archive that will be built in the far north of Scotland.
04 April 2013
Winfrith hazard gone
A massive batch of hazardous sodium metal, stored at Winfrith for more than 30 years, has now been disposed of.
04 April 2013
Breeder transport now under way
Nuclear material left over from Dounreay’s research work in the 20th century is being returned to national fuel stocks as part of the site’s clean-up and closure.
04 April 2013
Funding boost speeds up demolition
A funding boost of more than £12.8 million will speed up decommissioning
at Dungeness A, enabling the turbine halls to be demolished.
03 April 2013
Transport moves continue
The return of solid vitrified waste to Japan has continued amid the ongoing
political sensitivities around the future of the country’s nuclear industry.
03 April 2013
Climbing to new heights
An award-winning robot has been shared with Dounreay after undergoing trials at Sellafield.
03 April 2013
Bulk asbestos safely removed
More than 10 years’ worth of work to remove 2,100-plus tonnes of
asbestos from Hinkley Point A site has now been completed.
03 April 2013
All clear for first vault
Trawsfynydd site has scored a major first for the Magnox fleet by completing the clean-out of radioactive sludge from one of its resin vaults.
03 April 2013
The art of creating a nuclear sight
The image of nuclear enjoyed an artistic make-over when Tate Britain
brought video cameras to capture the sights and sounds of Trawsfynydd
site in Snowdonia.
