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SNP wave farm could create ‘nuclear threat’ - Times Online

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:49:36 -0000

THE construction of the world’s largest tidal farm off the north of Scotland could put lives at risk by disturbing thousands of radioactive particles from the Dounreay nuclear plant, a government adviser has warned.

Dr John Large, an independent nuclear consultant who has advised the UK government, fears that laying cables to connect turbines to the national grid would release nuclear waste buried in the seabed.

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Fresh blow to 'Scotland plc' after French buy nuclear energy giant - Scotsman.com Business

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:31:20 -0000

FEARS have been raised that Scotland is losing its key decision makers in the international business world after a £12.5 billion buyout of British Energy was announced yesterday.

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Scientists find more hazardous hotspots on beach - Scotsman.com News

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:37:39 -0000

SCIENTISTS have pinpointed seven new radioactive hotspots on a public beach in Fife, it emerged yesterday.
Close to the site of a former Second World War airfield, Dalgety Bay has long been suspected of being contaminated by parts from planes which were dismantled prior to parts of the coastline being reclaimed.

Dangerous material such as radium was used to coat the luminous dials of wartime aircraft so that they could be read at night.

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News & Star: Sellafield body parts inquiry legal hitch

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:06:16 -0000

The Sellafield body parts inquiry has hit a major legal hitch after a doctor suggested his patients’ medical records should remain confidential – even though they are dead.

Michael Redfern QC is leading an inquiry into claims organs and tissue were secretly removed from workers at Sellafield and other nuclear plants without the knowledge of bereaved loved ones.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Seven radioactive spots on beach

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:02:09 -0000

Scientists monitoring a beach in Fife for radioactive hotspots say they have discovered seven contaminated areas.

Local people are worried Dalgety Bay may now be placed on a new register for radioactively contaminated land.

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Between the Lines: Going nuclear – cheap and beneficial for Scotland? - Scotsman.com Business

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:42:38 -0000

SOARING energy prices are big news once again this week, with Gordon Brown's announcement of £910 million being squeezed out of the energy companies to help poor folk deal with their bills. Poor old Gordon was promptly met with a blast of complaint that his proposals were rubbish. An energy economist might conclude from this that big gas and electricity bills are a hot political topic because the public is highly sensitive to high prices.

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Radiation warning for Scots families near firing range - The Daily Record

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:16:24 -0000

PEOPLE living near a top-secret firing range may be at a higher risk of cancer, scientists have claimed.

Researchers say radioactive particles from weapons could damage the genes, including those of unborn babies, of residents who live near the military site on the Solway Firth.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Atomic body backs rail proposal

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:26:45 -0000

A campaign to route a railway line to the far north of Scotland across the Dornoch Firth has won backing from a nuclear organisation.

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) said the Dornoch Rail Link would boost the local economy.

The link was mentioned in its submission to Scottish Government consultation on new transport projects.

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cumbria | Nuclear waste site plan opposed

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:47:02 -0000

Plans to dispose of radioactive waste at the site of a former opencast pit in Cumbria have met with opposition.

Recycling and waste management firm Sita UK wants to buy land at Keekle Head, near Whitehaven, for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.

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Locals to oppose £110m nuclear waste dump construction - Contract Journal

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:08:53 -0000

Local residents are set to oppose the construction of a proposed £110m nuclear waste treatment next to the Dounreay power plant in Scotland.

The opposition comes despite the scheme winning the conditional backing of the Scottish Environmental Proection Agency (Sepa), according to the Scotsman.

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BE's repair bill for nuclear plants 'spirals over £50m' - Scotsman.com Business

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:38:48 -0000

NUCLEAR power group British Energy yesterday admitted that the cost of repairs at two of its reactors had spiralled beyond initial £50 million estimates.
Delays and complications at the Hartlepool and Heysham 1 plants will be "significantly higher", the company conceded.

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Lochhead checks on progress of Dounreay clean-up - Press & Journal

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:49:47 -0000

A SCOTTISH Government minister yesterday visited Dounreay to witness the dismantling of the plants that once supported Britain’s nuclear research programme.

Richard Lochhead, the minister for rural affairs and the environment, spent time at the Caithness site to see for himself how waste from the shutdown and clean-up of Scotland’s biggest nuclear site is being managed.

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Locals demand closure of Scottish ‘nuclear beach’ - Times Online

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:04:39 -0000

A Scottish beach contaminated by nuclear waste is a “radioactive minefield” that should be closed immediately, say worried locals.

Sandside beach, an attractive bay two miles west of the decommissioned fast-breeder reactor at Dounreay, is a popular stopoff for tourists on the Highland coastal route – but campaigners say that thousands of tiny but potentially lethal radioactive fuel particles have contaminated the sand.

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Whitehaven News: Who Nuclear Management Partners are

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:28:11 -0000

Nuclear Management Partners Ltd is a joint venture comprising URS Corporation - Washington Division, AMEC and AREVA.

URS Corporation - Washington Division (formerly Washington Group International) is a provider of planning, engineering design, construction, technical, management, and operations and maintenance services to public and private sector clients worldwide.
It employs 25,000 people. Washington and URS are the main sponsors of Whitehaven Rugby League.

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BBC NEWS | Business | Group chosen for Sellafield job

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:25:24 -0000

A consortium, including the UK's Amec, has been named as the government's preferred choice to clean up and run the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.

The UK's Amec, URS's Washington Division of the US, and France's Areva have been shortlisted for the £1.3bn-a-year contract.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Sellafield 'dirty for a century'

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:53:38 -0000

It will take over 100 years before the toxic nuclear site at Sellafield is safe, it has been revealed.

A Westminster report claims that the UK's largest atomic power-station, overlooking the Irish Sea, won't be completely clean until 2120.

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Dounreay costs pass £1bn mark - Scotsman.com News

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:35:41 -0000

HE cost of maintaining the Dounreay nuclear plant since 2000 has climbed above £1 billion.
Malcolm Wicks, the energy minister, said the actual costs since then amounted to £1.145 billion and the bill last year was £137.5 million.

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Nuclear Waste Export Plan Sails Into A Storm (from Sunday Herald)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:24:00 -0000

AN UNPRECEDENTED plan to export radioactive waste from old nuclear submarines in Scotland to Sweden is coming under fire from local authorities worried about accidents and pollution.

The naval dockyard at Rosyth in Fife has applied for permission to ship metal contaminated with radioactivity to a smelter near Nyköping in Sweden, run by the nuclear waste company Studsvik.

The plan is for the metal, from the decommissioning of seven defunct submarines laid up at Rosyth, to be melted, decontaminated and reused.

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Nuclear waste | Anybody want some plutonium? | Economist.com

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:09:46 -0000

THE half-life of official opposition to nuclear power in Britain has been very short. In its first energy white paper in 2003, the government was disdainful, devoting most of its time to wind and solar power. By 2006, the talk had shifted to replacing Britain’s existing capacity. In January 2008, John Hutton, the business secretary, upped the ante again, calling for a big expansion of nuclear power.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Plans to bury nuclear waste

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:07:53 -0000

Proposals to deal with Britain's legacy of nuclear waste are being published by the government.

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