2004 press releases

December

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23rd December 2004
UKAEA seeks permission for shaft isolation field trials


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23rd December 2004
Monitoring of Sandside Beach


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7th December 2004
UKAEA halves the time of chemical clean-up



November

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10th November 2004
Four star centre attracts record numbers


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8th November 2004
Dounreay’s 1000th apprentice tells First Minister of international vision


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3rd November 2004
Dounreay’s 50th brings windfall for community regeneration


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1st November 2004
1 million decommissioning milestone at Harwell



October


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28th October 2004
Security handover highlights Winfrith decommissioning progress


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27th October 2004
Lifting of direction boosts Fuel Cycle Area decommissioning


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20th October 2004
Five consortia shortlisted for £100 million contract


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18th October 2004
UKAEA awards £3 million reactor clean-up contract


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13th October 2004
Public participation in options for fast reactor liquid waste


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11th October 2004
UKAEA on track to halve the time and cost of its nuclear clean-up


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11th October 2004
Dounreay clean-up timescale and costs are reduced


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6th October 2004
Old flagstone works area at Castlehill gets facelift


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6th October 2004
UKAEA announces £16 million contract for shaft isolation


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4th October 2004
Scotland’s first nuclear reactor is opened to view



September

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UKAEA brings forward hydraulic isolation of Dounreay waste shaft

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21st September 2004
500th tonne of metal destroyed is milestone in site clean-up



August

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24th August 2004
Balfour Beatty to build major new waste facility at Dounreay


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Planning permission sought for breeder fuel removal


July


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30th July 2004
Barbara Judge appointed as chairman of UKAEA


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30th July 2004
New team to drive accelerated clean-up at Dounreay


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29th July 2004
Conservative Leader learns of potential for Scots business in decommissioning


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28th July 2004
Minister opens LEAD centre for decommissioning skills


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22nd July 2004
UKAEA helps to restore West Cumbria’s heritage


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19th July 2004
UKAEA celebrates its first fifty years


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12th July 2004
UKAEA chooses new test centre to meet Dounreay clean-up challenge


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8th July 2004
Minister for Energy visits UKAEA and Harwell International Business Centre


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7th July 2004
Be amazed by science this summer



June


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28th June 2004
The view is clearer thanks to UKAEA Winfrith


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25th June 2004
Prestigious plasma physics prize awarded to UKAEA Culham team


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23rd June 2004
UKAEA Winfrith shoots in to help new school


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18th June 2004
Italy gets UK fusion research machine


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9th June 2004
UKAEA Dounreay consults on change in reference strategy for fast reactor waste


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7th June 2004
Fusion basics on show at Cheltenham Science Festival



May

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25th May 2004
Going, going, gone at Winfrith


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24th May 2004
Fusion research celebrates JET's 25th anniversary


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20th May 2004
UKAEA and Dounreay earn prestigious safety awards


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17th May 2004
Harwell and Culham welcome Chairman of House of Commons Committee


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5th May 2004
Harwell’s oldest nuclear research laboratory closes


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4th May 2004
WAGR expertise taken to Korea



April

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30th April 2004
Government agencies secure future of major Dorset employment centre


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29th April 2004
Reactor decommissioned on the internet


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26th April 2004
Double boost for UKAEA Pensions Service


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5th April 2004
UKAEA to accelerate decommissioning of its sites


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5th April 2004
UKAEA to accelerate decommissioning of Harwell


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5th April 2004
UKAEA to accelerate decommissioning of Windscale site


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5th April 2004
UKAEA to accelerate the decommissioning of Winfrith


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5th April 2004
Dounreay accelerates opening of Visitor Centre


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1st April 2004
Clean-up programme worth £313 million to be driven forward by new management



March


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31st March 2004
End of an era in fuel manufacturing at Dounreay


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31st March 2004
Media invite


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22nd March 2004
UKAEA Winfrith encourage healthy eating


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17th March 2004
Destruction of liquid metal is milestone in decommissioning Dounreay


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10th March 2004
Equal opportunities for sons


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9th March 2004
Young Einsteins get their chance to shine!



February

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24th February
Winfrith comes up shining


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23rd February
Camera survey begins to reveal Windscale Pile core


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17th February
Dounreay to recruit 1000th engineering apprentice


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16th February
UK fusion research awarded £48 million grant from EPSRC


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9th February
UKAEA cleans up in the west


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3rd February
ITER focus for new Fusion and Industry Manager



January

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20th January 2004
New treatment plant is good news for the environment and economy


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19th January 2004
Archive investment preserves Dounreay’s pioneering history


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8th January 2004
Project WAGR cuts through to the next stage


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6th January 2004
Culham - providing the power of the future! An Oxfordshire Science Festival event


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