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However, on 18 July 2023, BNFL was resurrected as Great British Nuclear, with the aim of delivering the government's long-term nuclear programme and supporting its ambition to deliver up to 24 GW of nuclear power in the UK by 2050. [2] Great British Nuclear is running a small modular reactor (SMR) competition which will place between one and ...
The 2004 Act also established the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which on 1 April 2005 took ownership and responsibility for the liabilities relating to the cleanup of UK nuclear sites. The authority became a contractor for the NDA for the decommissioning work at Dounreay , Harwell , Windscale, Winfrith and the JET facilities at Culham.
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) (Welsh: Heddlu Sifil Niwclear) is a special police force responsible for providing law enforcement and security at any relevant nuclear site and for security of nuclear materials in transit within the United Kingdom. [4] The force has over 1,500 police officers and support staff. [5]
The NIA holds conferences for its members. Its annual conference, Nuclear 2016, took place on 1 December 2016. The conference was previously known as "Energy Choices and #Nuclear – Powering the UK". The Energy Minister, Andrea Leadsom, spoke at the 2015 event. The NIA also holds a biennial Nuclear New Build conference.
Her work in the nuclear industry led her to receive an OBE for services to science and technology, after she became the first woman to hold the position of station director at a UK nuclear power station at Heysham. [2] She served as the CEO for Magnox Ltd from September 2019 until she became Great British Nuclear's first CEO in March 2023. [3]
LONDON (Reuters) -Nearly 2,000 staff at a British company that makes and maintains nuclear warheads will vote on whether to carry out industrial action in a dispute over pay, a union said on ...
During the early part of the Second World War, Britain had a nuclear weapons project, codenamed Tube Alloys. [1] At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, signed the Quebec Agreement, which merged Tube Alloys with the American Manhattan Project to create a combined British, American and Canadian ...
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