Dounreay power station workers consider strike

Around 450 members of Unite the union employed by Magnox Limited at Dounreay power station are being balloted for strike action due to a pay dispute

Nuclear waste removed from Sellafield

The waste has been held for 60 years, in what the NDA calls one of its most hazardous sites

Up to £750k offered for innovative tech to remotely monitor legacy nuclear sites

The competition is seeking technologies that will help achieve a step change improvement in data capture and which enables new predictive modelling capabilities to proactively improve decision-making

New business to manage UK’s radioactive nuclear waste

The Nuclear Waste Services will oversee the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s integrated waste programme

Disused nuclear vessel 100% recycled in UK first

All parts of Oceanic Pintail were reused, in what the NDA believes can be another way to accelerate the UK’s journey to net zero

New partnership aims to inspire young nuclear professionals

The Young Generation Network Industrial Partnership will encourage educational attainment and professional qualifications

Dounreay nuclear energy site unusable for other purposes until 2333

That’s the suggestion made in a new report from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which forecasts the land at the 148-acre site will be completely ‘dedesignated’ or reused in 313 years

Northern companies don’t waste any time making Sellafield containers

Firms from Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria are building boxes to store radioactive materials from the site

‘Sellafield cleanup could overspend by £913m’

The National Audit Office says the site is still facing continued delays

Share of £3m on offer for nuclear clean-up innovators

A £3 million competition for bright ideas to clean up old nuclear power stations has been launched. Run by Innovate UK and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the initiative is initially focused on closing down the ageing Sellafield facility in Cumbria but winning ideas could be used to decommission other nuclear sites in the future. […]