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Centre to help deal with nuclear waste

Added: 20 Nov 2012

A £1.2m centre to research the decontamination and safe storage of nuclear waste is being establish…

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Employers offered £150m for 'DIY' skills schemes

Added: 20 Nov 2012

London – The UK government has put up £150 million to help businesses to create their own training …

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Concern over EU carbon capture fund

Added: 19 Nov 2012

London - Only one carbon capture & storage (CCS) project is likely receive EU funding under the fir…

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Ohio researchers develop hybrid CO2 capture membrane

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new hybrid membrane that combines the separat…

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Energy minister puts the heat on

Added: 19 Nov 2012

London – Measures to reduce the UK heat-related energy requirements and the emissions generated wer…

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Looking good in chemical protective clothes market

Added: 19 Nov 2012

London – The market for chemical protective clothing is set for robust growth over the next few yea…

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Deepwater Horizon: BP reaches $4.5bn settlement with US

Added: 16 Nov 2012

London - BP is to pay fines of $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges in a deal with the…

UK energy research receives funding boost

Added: 13 Nov 2012

One of the Research Councils’ biggest investments in research to support energy efficiency policy a…

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Auditor slams Sellafield clean-up projects

Added: 9 Nov 2012

London – Decommissioning work at Sellafield, the UK’s largest and most hazardous nuclear site, has …

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Environmentalists urged to support Thames Supersewer

Added: 8 Nov 2012

London –  A US wastewater expert has urged London to embrace the Thames Tunnel as the only solution…

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Corac deal to advance gas-pressure electricity technology

Added: 7 Nov 2012

London `- Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed a deal with corporate partners in the UK and U…

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Euro6m grant for fuel cell project at Industrial Chemicals

Added: 7 Nov 2012

London – Industrial fuel cell power company AFC Energy and Industrial Chemicals Ltd (ICL) have earn…

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Plan to add 3,000 jobs at former Pfizer site

Added: 7 Nov 2012

Sandwich, UK - Discovery Park Ltd has announced plans to potentially generate 3,000 new jobs by 201…

GSK process is year's top advance

Added: 3 Nov 2012

London – GlaxoSmithKline has taken top prize in the IChemE 2012 Awards for a process technology tha…

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Smart filter strains oil out of water

Added: 1 Nov 2012

Researchers at Michigan University have developed a smart filter with a shape-shifting surface that…

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UK shortlists candidates for £1bn CCS fund

Added: 31 Oct 2012

London – The government has revealed the four bidders to have been shortlisted for the next phase o…

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Hitachi buys UK's Horizon nuclear project

Added: 30 Oct 2012

Japan’s Hitachi has signed a £700m deal to buy Horizon Nuclear Power from Germany’s E.On and RWE.

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Shale gas hits US butadiene production

Added: 30 Oct 2012

New York - The relatively recent and intense exploitation of US natural gas reserves is resulting i…

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Skills Show signs up Dragons' Den star

Added: 30 Oct 2012

London – Theo Paphitis - star of BBC Two TV’s Dragons’ Den and one of the UK’s most high profile sh…