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Nuclear power SMRs

Rolls-Royce goes full throttle for SMR role

Added: 9 Jan 2017

Rolls-Royce is to play a lead role in a partnership that aims to construct a fleet of small modular…

Pounds money sterling cash

£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 …

Scott Safety protection

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…

UK manufacturing hits 30-month high

Added: 3 Jan 2017

Activity within the UK manufacturing sector hit a 30-month high in December, according to the Marki…

Carbon capture and storage CCS

Carbon usage breakthrough claimed

Added: 3 Jan 2017

UK government support for two Indian entrepreneurs has helped enable what is claimed to be the firs…

Nuclear waste

Manchester Uni makes nuclear waste recycling leap

Added: 2 Jan 2017

Researchers at the University of Manchester have used pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) …

tank water

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…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

ABB handed Ferrybridge demolition contract

Added: 15 Dec 2016

Energy firm SSE has appointed ABB’s engineering and consultancy division to handle decommissioning …

Wylfa Newydd

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…

Gas pipe

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…

Union announces Tata deal struck for Port Talbot

Added: 7 Dec 2016

One of the three unions involved in negotiations to maintain output at Tata steelworks across the U…

Government gives £60 million for manufacturing innovation

Added: 7 Dec 2016

Universities and science minister Jo Johnson has given £60 million to fund six new research hubs to…

Pills drugs medicine

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…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturers buoyant despite production dip

Added: 4 Dec 2016

The UK manufacturing sector remains confident despite the latest Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) i…

Battery

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…

Glenmuckloch open cast coal mine

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 Steel

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…

New report questions value of merging NHS labs

Added: 28 Nov 2016

Independent research organisation MindMetre has questioned the benefits of consolidating pathology …

Stan Higgins

NEPIC chief brands government’s approach to industry ‘disappointing’

Added: 25 Nov 2016

North East of England Process Industry Cluster spokesman Stan Higgins has described the Government’…