Berkeley Site will be holding a public exhibition at Berkeley Town Hall on Friday 9 December 5pm - 7pm to display plans for the removal of up to five redundant boilers, currently stored at the site. The project aims to remove the boilers during March 2012 and welcomes members of the public to attend and ask Site Director, Steve McNally any questions they may have.
Bradwell Site has recently donated £1,500 to Burnham-on-Crouch Primary School towards a new filter and cover for their swimming pool. The site’s parent body organisation, EnergySolutions, donates money to the local community every year and this year Burnham-on-Crouch Primary School is one of them. The new filter and cover will help the school maintain the swimming pool for the regular swimming classes which the children enjoy and actively take part in. The school also hopes to open the pool to the local community in the near future. Jim Buckley, EnergySolutions representative for Bradwell Site said, “EnergySolutions is delighted to contribute in a beneficial way to the school’s swimming programme as it is important for young children to gain skills and knowledge; especially in a community where the River Crouch is a part of community life.”
An important performance target, to drain and clean one of the Chapelcross ponds, was completed recently.
A dedicated ten-man team at Dungeness has made huge progress in deplanting the blower oil system pipework.
Hinkley Point A has achieved a major milestone in its decommissioning programme by decontaminating the last of its huge inventory of nearly 1,800 skips – the largest inventory across the Magnox estate.
Magnox’s Hunterston A Site has welcomed a new Site Director to lead the site through its decommissioning phase.
As part of South Gloucestershire Council’s Local Food & Drink Festival, Oldbury Power Station was opened up its rare cider apple orchard to the Scrumping Project.
While carrying out routine inspections in the early hours of Saturday 3rd September, an operative noted unexpected plant indications and upon investigation, discovered water escaping from a cracked flow meter in the site’s active effluent treatment plant (AETP). The meter forms part of a section of the system which returns treated water to the used fuel storage pond and as such the activity in the liquid was very low. The plant was shut down before the loss initiated our early warning alarms.
The Welsh Government’s Environment and Sustainable Development Minister was shown a range of decommissioning activities during a recent visit to Trawsfynydd site in North Wales. The visit was hosted by Site Director Dave Wilson.
Six primary schools from Anglesey were celebrating last week after their success in the Primary Engineering Challenge 2011, organised by Magnox’s Wylfa Site, in partnership with Babcock International Group.
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