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UK regulators to assess Hitachi nuclear reactor design

2013-01-17 01:00:00| Power Technology

The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency have announced that they will conduct a design assessment on a new nuclear reactor.

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'Nuclear waste? No thanks,' say Lake District national park tourism chiefs

2013-01-16 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Cumbria's tourism board has joined the growing clamour against any further research into the burying of nuclear power station waste within the borders of the Lake District national park. The board which oversees the park, the county's largest earner and one of the most-visited group of attractions in the UK has also stated its strong opposition to investigations in the Solway Coast area of outstanding natural beauty on the West Cumbrian side of the famous lakes and fells. Eric Robson, chair...

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Nuclear Waste Cask Transport

2013-01-15 17:46:00| Power Technology

Hilman Rollers proved to be a high capacity and low profile solution used for the on site transport of nuclear fuel casks at this nuclear power facility.

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Hitachi UK nuclear plans edge forward with reactor design assessment

2013-01-15 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Plans for a new fleet of nuclear power stations took a step forward today, after Ministers ordered an official assessment of the nuclear reactors that developer Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy plans to use at its recently acquired sites in the UK. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed Ministers had instructed the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency to carry out a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) on the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWRs) Hitachi hopes to...

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