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Wednesday 9 August 2006
Innovative thinking improves throughput.
Innovative thinking has resulted in a 20 per cent increase in throughput for British Nuclear Group in the THORP store.
Wednesday 9 August 2006
British Nuclear Group maximises storage tank capacity
The innovative use of a robotic device has helped British Nuclear Group maximise the capacity of the buffer storage tanks in the Site Ion Exchange Effluent Plant (SIXEP) at Sellafield, increasing the amount of sludge storage space.
Monday 7 August 2006
1,000,000 man hours without a lost time accident at Capenhurst
On Monday 30 July 2006, British Nuclear Group\'s decommissioning team at Capenhurst passed the milestone of 1,000,000 manhours spent on decommissioning and clean-up work without a lost time accident (LTA). During those 1,000,000 manhours, the team has:
Thursday 3 August 2006
British Nuclear Group publishes socio economic report for Sellafield
The latest Sellafield Economic Plan (SEP) for 2006/07 has been submitted to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. It builds on last year\'s plan and a 20 year track record of delivering economic innovation creating thousands of jobs and leveraging millions of pounds into the North West of England.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Safety focus pays off at Capenhurst
Maintaining a firm focus on safety is paying off for Capenhurst as the whole site has recently achieved a full year without a lost time accident (LTA).
Wednesday 26 July 2006
By royal appointment
Theatr Clwyd Cymru played host to a royal visit when His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of Cornwall were touring the area.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Transforming the past - safely!
‘SAFETY is a given’. This continued message from British Nuclear Group\'s Andy Scargill, decommissioning project superintendent, paid off in style as his decommissioning team proudly exceeded 12 months without a single Lost Time Accident (LTA) in June.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
British Nuclear Group's safety boost for charities
Safety is top of the bill for workers at Sellafield’s Effluents and Encapsulation plants (E&EP). Celebrating a successful twelve months work with no injuries, the teams are now planning to mark their achievement with donations to two local charities: Arlecdon and District first responders and the Wedgewood Centre.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Daniel rises to the challenge!
Sucessfully applying inspiration, imagination and innovation to overcome a challenging problem has resulted in savings of over £1.4 million for Management Services, Sellafield, thanks to the hard work and determination of Thorp manufacturing support team member, Daniel Capers.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Waste reduction in the low level waste handling facility at Sellafield
Introducing a new low level waste handling facility in Sellafield’s separation area has resulted in significant reductions to activity declarations.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Highly active storage tank emptied two years early
Emptying of one of Sellafield’s Highly Active Storage Tanks (HAST) two years ahead of schedule has been successfully achieved. The transfer of the last 59 cubic metres of liquor from HAST 4, equivalent to 1,500te of historic Magnox reprocessing, took place in two stages during January and May, and required careful coordination of a number of safety factors, both conventional and radiological, and operational constraints.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
British Nuclear Group team beats schedule by 18 months
Successfully moving over seven thousand drums and 54 crates has resulted in British Nuclear Group\'s Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) stores team at Sellafield meeting their target an impressive 18 months ahead of schedule.
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Memorial Walk raises money for the British Heart Foundation
BRITISH Nuclear Group, Sellafield’s Clean Up legacy silos team and Fluor have raised over £2,000 for the British Heart Foundation.
Tuesday 25 July 2006
Learning safety lessons from submarines
SAFETY advisors from British Nuclear Group recently visited BAE Systems in Barrow to see how BAE Systems Submarines manage and control working in confined spaces.
Monday 24 July 2006
Sealines successfully recovered by British Nuclear Group
British Nuclear Group has this week successfully completed a three year project to remove three redundant pipelines (sealines) from the beach and offshore at Sellafield. Completion of this multi-million pounds project illustrates the commitment to decommissioning and cleaning up legacy infrastructure at Sellafield.
Friday 21 July 2006
World first for British Nuclear Group
British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd has become the first operator of a nuclear reprocessing facility to join the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), an organisation dedicated to improving the safety and reliability of nuclear power plants.
Friday 7 July 2006
British Nuclear Group completes Sellafield pipeline removal project
British Nuclear Group has this week successfully completed a three-year project to remove three redundant pipelines from the beach and offshore at the Sellafield site in Cumbria.
Friday 23 June 2006
Safety scheme benefits school
St James’ Infant School in Whitehaven has benefited from British Nuclear Group’s Waste Handling Facility’s Safety Accumulator Scheme. The facility has achieved its first safety milestone by completing the first phase of construction without an accident, working with AMEC.
Wednesday 21 June 2006
Safety success
British Nuclear Group\'s decommissioning team at Sellafield proudly exceeded 12 months without a single Lost Time Accident (LTA) in June. Given the variety of work that the decommissioning team are tasked with, this is an exemplary achievement for the 300 plus workforce.
Friday 16 June 2006
Archbishop visits Sellafield
The Archbishop of York, the Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, accompanied by the Bishop of Carlisle, Rt Revd Graham Dow, and the Bishop of Penrith, the Rt Revd James Newcome, made a visit to Sellafield on Friday 19 May. This was the Archbishop\'s first visit to the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle, in which Sellafield is situated.
Friday 16 June 2006
Sealine Project reinstates beach
British Nuclear Group achieved a major project milestone on the Sealine Recovery Project at Sellafield in May with the completion of the reinstatement of the beach adjacent to Sellafield.
Monday 22 May 2006
Underwater success
A challenging subsea project to replace and install diffusers to the operational sealines (diffusers are used to help further disperse liquid effluent prior to final discharge to sea) has been completed by British Nuclear Group’s Decommissioning Projects, working with specialist contractors, Land & Marine, in just over six weeks.
Friday 19 May 2006
Safe delivery of clean-up acceleration on the Sellafield site
FANTASTIC work by British Nuclear Group at Sellafield has resulted in the safe acceleration of clean-up activities valued at £10 million in the legacy silos.
Tuesday 9 May 2006
Sellafield's supplier forum
OVER 160 suppliers attended the supplier forum held by Management Services Sellafield on 26 April at the Sellafield Training Centre.
Tuesday 2 May 2006
Manipulators excel in tests
British Nuclear Group has successfully completed endurance testing of two Heavy Duty Hydraulic Manipulators.
Thursday 6 April 2006
British Nuclear Group achieves mark of excellence
British Nuclear Group has been awarded the prestigious Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) certification standard, accepted as a mark of excellence for purchasing policies and procedures.
Thursday 23 March 2006
Sellafield Clean-up team has ?cracked it? again
A Sellafield safety initiative, ‘Ponds cracked it scheme’, has donated £500 to a further two West Cumbria charities.
Monday 13 March 2006
Innovation solutions aid PCM recovery
Innovative solutions have enabled the Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) retrievals team at the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) to recover a number of drums containing PCM waste material which were temporarily stored within ISO containers inside a compound at the LLWR.
Thursday 9 March 2006
Clean up continues at Sellafield
Located in the middle of the Separation Area a redundant storage facility has been successfully demolished, following the successful resolution of a number of major challenges.
Wednesday 8 March 2006
Waste Vitrification Plant Successes
Excellent team work at the Waste Vitrification Plant (WVP) at Sellafield has achieved the highest throughput rates on record from the Vitrification Lines.
Tuesday 7 March 2006
Sellafield?s Engineered Drum Store completed
A successful active commissioning programme, has ensured Sellafield’s newest Engineered Drum Store (EDS3) received the go ahead to commence full operations from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII).
Friday 10 February 2006
Thorp Feed Clarification Cell ? Latest Update
British Nuclear Group has continued to make good progress with the work necessary to get Thorp reprocessing facility fully operational again.
Thursday 26 January 2006
44 years of discharges prevented after early end to Sellafield waste programme
British Nuclear Group, the nuclear site management, decommissioning and clean-up specialist, this week completed the clean-up of historic liquid waste from one of the oldest plants at Sellafield, while preventing more than 44 years of radioactive discharges to sea and saving taxpayers up to £300m in potential new building costs.
Wednesday 18 January 2006
A day to remember for Capenhurst
CAPENHURST had a day to remember in December, when the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) Chairman, Sir Anthony Cleaver, and Chief Executive, Dr Ian Roxburgh, made a special trip to the site.
Wednesday 18 January 2006
Argon plant accelerates Sellafield clean-up project
Installation of a new argon plant and associated supply systems has taken preparation at the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at Sellafield one step closer to the next level of waste retrievals.
Wednesday 18 January 2006
Major land and sea decommissioning success
A major land and sea decommissioning project took British Nuclear Group another step forward with the recovery of the final sections of redundant Sealine 1 from the seabed adjacent to Sellafield.
Wednesday 18 January 2006
First Fuel Exported From Legacy Pond in Fifteen Years
British Nuclear Group has taken a GIANT step towards reducing hazard at Sellafield with the flawless retrieval of a skip containing Magnox fuel from a legacy storage pond.
Wednesday 18 January 2006
British Nuclear Group takes massive steps to improve silo safety
NEWLY installed cavity sump emptying systems are significantly improving safety within Magnox swarf storage silos, following key work performed as part of the plants ongoing live safety case.
