Dounreay ‘poaching’ hurts local regeneration drive, councillor claims
“Poaching” of skilled workers from Caithness-based firms to work at Dounreay is threatening to derail efforts to regenerate the local economy, it has being claimed.
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Diversification strategy is paying off for Wood
Wood chief executive Robin Watson said yesterday the Aberdeen-based energy service giant was successfully “broadening” its business and becoming less reliant on offshore oil and gas projects.
Wood wins £768million contract as part of Sellafield nuclear decommissioning programme
Aberdeen-headquartered energy services firm Wood has won a £767.8million contract to help decommission the UK’s most complex nuclear site.
Wood wins contract for Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor
Aberdeen-headquartered Wood has been made a special advisor for construction of the first UK nuclear power station to be built in more than 20 years.
Why Holyrood must put power back in hands of autonomous Caithness bodies
Suppose that Edinburgh’s prospects were so dire that its population was projected to nosedive by a fifth in 20 years.
Footage shows cracks in Hunterston nuclear reactor
Footage has been released of cracks found inside a reactor at a nuclear plant in Scotland.
Should we rethink nuclear power?
While it seems to fly in the face of everything we believe and have been taught about nuclear power, it may actually be the safest form of power production that we have. Ironically, the immense potency of the power of splitting an atom is simultaneously what makes nuclear weapons so dangerous as well as what makes nuclear power so safe.
Angry councillors reject proposal that Highland Council should join Nuclear-Free group
A proposal that Highland Council should join the Nuclear-Free Local Authorities (NFLA) group set tempers and emotions running at fever pitch yesterday.
‘Deals concluded’ on nuclear trade after Brexit, business secretary claims
Britain has concluded all replacement international agreements needed to ensure "continuity" for civil nuclear trade after Brexit, the business secretary has announced.
Next up for Fukushima clean up: What does melted fuel feel like?
The owner of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station is trying this week to touch melted fuel at the bottom of the plant for the first time since the disaster almost eight years ago, a tiny but key step toward retrieving the radioactive material amid a $195 billion clean up effort.
Mixed reaction to nuclear project suspension
Unions have urged the Government to step in and help take Wylfa forward, after plans for the multibillion-pound new nuclear power station were suspended.
Plans for nuclear plant in Wales put on ice
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi confirmed it will halt work on its nuclear power projects in the U.K. and said it will take a one-time charge amid a shift away from reactor sales.
A very ‘unusual’ radioactive waste disposal job
Radioactive waste is being removed from one of the most unusual laboratories in the country.
Hitachi to halt work on UK nuclear project
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. will halt work on a nuclear power project in the U.K. and take a one-time charge as negotiations with the British government over funding stalled, the Nikkei reported. Shares in Tokyo rallied the most in more than two years.
Communist ghost town holds key to a nuclear future
On the edge of a small Bulgarian town on the southern bank of the Danube River lies a relic from communism with eerie echoes of one of the Soviet era’s most infamous places.
Flights of nuclear material sparks fury
The last reported flight taking high-grade nuclear material from Dounreay in Caithnesss has taken place.
French nuclear shutdown to develop ‘more slowly’
French President Emmanuel Macron has said the country will move more slowly than promised to cap the amount of energy it derives from nuclear energy.
Energy minister accused of throwing region ‘under bus’ over nuclear plant
Secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS), Greg Clark, was accused of having "thrown under a bus" the people of Cumbria after plans to build a new nuclear power station collapsed.
UN Nuclear watchdog says Iran abiding by 2015 deal limits
The UN's nuclear watchdog has said that Iran is abiding by the deal reached in 2015 with major powers that aimed at preventing Tehran from building atomic weapons in exchange for economic incentives.
Nuclear archive building wins architecture award
The £20 million nuclear archive in Caithness has won a national architecture prize.
Nuclear transport protest in Highlands
Protesters from across the Highlands gathered in Inverness to stage a “peaceful protest” against the transportation of nuclear waste along the far north line.
EDF wooing pension funds to finance sizewell UK nuclear plant
The developer of Britain’s first nuclear power station in more than three decades has approached 12 pension funds about helping finance a sister plant on the other side of the country.
Cheaper green power in UK could put nuclear in the shade
Renewables can generate half of Britain’s power by 2030 without adding to consumer bills, potentially crowding out nuclear as a significant low carbon source of electricity.
Quest to find trillion-dollar nuclear fuel on the moon
India’s space program wants to go where no nation has gone before -– to the south side of the moon. And once it gets there, it will study the potential for mining a source of waste-free nuclear energy that could be worth trillions of dollars.
Government to invest billions of pounds in new nuclear power station
The Government is set to announce a multibillion pound investment in a new nuclear power station, as well as underwriting billions of pounds of loans.