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Enlightened Choices |
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The new Energy Minister, Mike O'Brien MP, welcomes investment offers, saying new nuclear build is something the government will seriously consider. |
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New reactors on the way |
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Since the last issue of Industry Link there have been several encouraging developments worldwide showing that the pace of new reactor construction is picking up. This includes countries which currently have no nuclear power stations. |
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2005 promises to be a busy and eventful year for NIA and the British nuclear industry. NIA enters the New Year with 100 members - a record number in the organisation's history, and clear evidence of the optimism about an upturn in the sector's commercial prospects. |
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Waste management tactics: "Stop; go; proceed with care..." |
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The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, CoRWM, has compiled the "long list of options" for managing nuclear waste in the UK using a 'traffic light system' which separates the options into colour coded categories as a means of whittling them down to a workable shortlist. |
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Canada open for nuclear business |
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As part of the NIA 2004/05 Export Programme a team of five NIA members accompanied by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and NIA staff visited Toronto over a week in October. |
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Energy Sprouts in Brussels |
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In November the All Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy spent 2 days in Brussels looking at how the energy issue is handled at EU level. The fourteen strong party met with industry representatives, politicians and officials over their two day visit which was timed to coincide with a hearing on security of energy supply in the European Parliament. |
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NIA welcomes new Chairman |
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The NIA AGM appointed Philip Dewhurst, Group Director, Corporate Affairs of BNFL as our new Chairman on 1 December. As reported in the last edition of Industry Link, our previous Chairman Tony Cooper was appointed as a non-executive Director of the NDA in October this year and as a result announced his intention to resign as Chairman at this year's AGM. |
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100 up for NIA! |
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The Nuclear Industry Association toasted the 100th addition to its membership at the parliamentary reception marking the eve of our annual conference, Energy Choices. |
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New NIA members |
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In addition to IJS Consultants NIA has the following new members: |
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INBIS Ltd, the UK based engineering consultancy group, have been awarded a £5m contract to supply UKAEA with a novel system for retrieval of Intermediate Level Waste from stores at Harwell so that it can be re-packaged. |
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