Weekly Update, 25th July 2011
29th
Jul,
2011
DOUNREAY SOCIO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE – SUPPORT TO THE CNSRP This blog is quite different from your usual weekly CNSRP blog. Since the CNSRP Programme Manager is on holiday at present we have taken up his invitation to write a guest blog this week. In May 2011 a partnering agreement was signed by the Nuclear Decommissioning […]
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Weekly update, 18th July 2011
21st
Jul,
2011
Energy: The NDA has just published a paper describing its “Preferred and Credible Options” for the management of DFR breeder materials which are currently stored at Dounreay. The potential transfer of spent fuels away from Dounreay to Sellafield was the subject of discussion at last month’s Dounreay Stakeholder Group. The preferred option of transportation to […]
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Weekly Update, 11th July 2011
15th
Jul,
2011
Energy: Together with representatives from Highland Council, Caithness Chamber of Commerce, Thurso & Wick Trades Council and Dounreay Stakeholder Group I met this week with consultants engaged by one of the companies involved in the Dounreay PBO Competition. They have been asked to help identify ways in which a new PBO at Dounreay can best […]
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Weekly Update, 4th July 2011
12th
Jul,
2011
Energy: I participated in a meeting this week of the Pentland Firth & Orkney Waters Coordination Committee, substituting for Stuart Black of Highland Council. This group brings together Scottish Government’s Renewables team, Marine Scotland, HIE, Highland Council, Orkney Islands Council and the Crown Estate. In the light of the Crown Estate’s recent publication of the […]
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Weekly Update, 27th June 2011
06th
Jul,
2011
Energy: Aberdeen-based firm AMC Engineering, who manufacture high-precision torque equipment for the oil & gas industry, have announced they will be building new workshops at Lybster. The Company’s MD is Andrew Polson, who is from Caithness. He is one of the business figures who has taken part in HIE’s “Caithness Ambassadors” initiative. The expansion of […]
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