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£660m nuclear industry pension cuts ‘a point blank betrayal’
Added: 8 Jan 2017
The GMB, Unite, Prospect and ASLEF/TSSA unions are meeting on Monday (9 January) to discuss strike …
Chemical spray leaves workers ‘severely burned’
Added: 4 Jan 2017
An engineering firm has been fined £150,000 after two of its workers suffered severe burns when the…
Manchester Uni makes nuclear waste recycling leap
Added: 2 Jan 2017
Researchers at the University of Manchester have used pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) …
CMA upholds £2.6m water tank cartel fine
Added: 21 Dec 2016
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed fines of more than £2.6 million on three bu…
IGas wins fracking approval in Nottinghamshire
Added: 18 Dec 2016
Nottinghamshire County Council’s Planning and Licensing Committee has given fracking firm IGas cons…
ABB handed Ferrybridge demolition contract
Added: 15 Dec 2016
Energy firm SSE has appointed ABB’s engineering and consultancy division to handle decommissioning …
Regulators to assess deployment of new nuclear reactors in the UK
Added: 12 Dec 2016
The Office for Nuclear Regulation, the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales have launched…
National Grid sells gas business stake for £13.8 billion
Added: 8 Dec 2016
National Grid has sold 61% of its UK gas distribution business to a MacQuarie Infrastructure-led co…
Pfizer fined £84.2m for drug price hike
Added: 7 Dec 2016
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined pharmaceutical major Pfizer £84.2 million for…
Bristol uni develops nuclear battery ‘powered by waste’
Added: 30 Nov 2016
Researchers at the University of Bristol have created a nuclear-powered battery that uses nuclear w…
Scotland moves to transform coal mine into energy park
Added: 29 Nov 2016
Plans to create an energy park at the former Glenmuckloch open cast coal mine were given a boost th…
Tata’s speciality steels business to sell for £100m
Added: 28 Nov 2016
Tata Steel has announced plans to sell its UK-based speciality steels business to Liberty House for…
EDF calls in Assystem to deliver Hinkley’s nuclear reactors
Added: 22 Nov 2016
French energy major EDF has called in engineering firm Assystem to help build two European Pressuri…
Downing Street promise of £2bn R&D increase applauded by sector
Added: 21 Nov 2016
Science and engineering leaders have been quick to welcome Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcemen…
RAE report warns job prospects for minority graduates need improving
Added: 21 Nov 2016
Employment opportunities for black and minority ethnic engineering students in the six months after…
Valmet fined £130,000 over worker’s pulping machine injury
Added: 19 Nov 2016
Valmet, which supplies automation and technology equipment to the pulp, paper and energy industries…
New nuclear waste disposal research ‘could save millions’
Added: 19 Nov 2016
A team of scientists has completed a body of research on radioactive isotopes, which could be used …
Minister says maintaining British chemical industry as world leader ‘vital’
Added: 18 Nov 2016
The UK’s role as a world leader in the chemical sector must be maintained after Brexit, Minister f…
GMB union demands open debate on fracking in UK
Added: 18 Nov 2016
Britain needs an ‘honest and open’ debate on the viability of fracking, said Stuart Fegan, National…
North Sea oil and gas decommissioning to soar by 2025
Added: 16 Nov 2016
North Sea decommissioning in the UK and Norway will continue to grow over the next decade with more…
