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Wednesday, 21 June 2017
The site of the former Bradwell nuclear power station has now successfully dealt with all of its Fuel Element Debris (FED) waste - a major source of i...
Monday, 03 April 2017
The 10-year-old trilateral Statement of Intent (SOI) between US and UK government organisations responsible for nuclear clean-up was recently renewed ...
Monday, 03 April 2017
The 2016 UK Radioactive Wastes and Materials Inventory (the Inventory) is updated every 3 years to provide the latest national record on radioactive w...
Wednesday, 01 March 2017
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced the appointment of David Peattie as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO)....
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
A 350-tonne machine has been installed at Sellafield to tackle one of the world’s most challenging nuclear clean-up jobs....
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
A unique new archive, funded by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has today opened its doors to the public for the first time, bringing together ...
Friday, 23 December 2016
Celebrations are taking place at our Harwell site this festive season as the former research centre, birthplace of the UK nuclear industry, reaches th...
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
Radioactive sludge has been transferred out of the world’s oldest nuclear fuel pond for the very first time, marking a historic achievement in the dec...
Friday, 02 December 2016
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Chief Executive John Clarke has been given a lifetime achievement award for services to the nuclear industry. ...
Thursday, 01 December 2016
NDA welcomes the launch of the Nuclear Skills Strategic Plan to ensure UK nuclear employers, including the supply chain, can recruit skilled people at...
Friday, 04 November 2016
Magnox Ltd has begun work on the final piece of the decommissioning jigsaw at the former Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR) on the Winfrith ...
Thursday, 03 November 2016
The winners of this year’s prestigious NDA Estate Supply Chain Awards were announced to a packed audience in Manchester....
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
For the first time in the UK, divers are being used to clean up former cooling ponds in a safe, environmentally beneficial way....
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Visitor numbers for the 2016 NDA Estate Supply Chain Event have now reached more than 1400. A few hundred places remain for those who have yet to regi...
Monday, 19 September 2016
The NDA welcomes Magnox Ltd's successful decontamination of more than 10,000 square metres of walls, floors and ceilings at the site of a former nucle...
Monday, 05 September 2016
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd have issued a joint statement in response to this evening's Panorama broadcast....
Friday, 02 September 2016
Sellafield Ltd has recorded one of its best-ever performances in the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) 2016 awards....
Friday, 05 August 2016
The Chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Stephen Henwood, has today announced that its Chief Executive, John Clarke, is to retire ...
Monday, 18 July 2016
Planners in Cumbria have given the go-ahead for two new vaults at the UK’s Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR), along with an extension to a third vault...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Magnox Ltd completes a project that represents a significant reduction in the radiological risk at the Bradwell nuclear site in Essex....
Monday, 20 June 2016
An aluminium weather envelope has been built around Bradwell’s two reactor structures in preparation for an 80 year care and maintenance period....
Monday, 23 May 2016
R&D framework contracts worth up to £12 million were awarded to a series of consortia, as NDA seeks innovative solutions to technical challenges....
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Construction of a new £39m training facility for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) began on Monday 16 May in West Cumbria....
Friday, 01 April 2016
We have now published the final documents and outcome of both consultations on our Business Plan for 2016 to 2019 and our Strategy effective from Apri...
Thursday, 31 March 2016
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Sellafield Ltd will start to write a new chapter in the history of the Sellafield site from today. ...
Tuesday, 01 March 2016
Sellafield Ltd achieves the “most significant stride ever” in its clean-up mission. The entire bulk stocks of historic nuclear fuel are now removed fr...
Thursday, 28 January 2016
NDA is contributing £500k to £1.5 million initiative to encourage smaller businesses to find new ways of solving some of the energy industry’s technic...
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Tony Fountain will become the new chair for Sellafield Ltd....
Thursday, 07 January 2016
Magnox Ltd has dispatched its final flask of fuel from Oldbury for reprocessing at Sellafield in Cumbria, completing the site’s programme of defuellin...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Wylfa, the last Magnox power station in the world, closed today after generating electricity for 5 years longer than originally planned....
Department for Education Premier League and literary greats back National Year of Reading
Environment Agency Reappointments to the Environment Agency Board
Home Office Illegal working raids reach highest level in UK history
Ministry of Defence Update: air strikes against Daesh
The Charity Commission Regulator investigates theatre company over governance concerns
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Change of His Majesty’s Ambassador to Estonia: Jo Lomas
Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain Pushed past the limits
Certification Officer Certification Officer: forthcoming hearings
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA funding for North Wales regeneration projects