Nuclear news
Sellafield fined £700k for dumping radioactive waste
Firm pleaded guilty to seven counts of sending irradiated waste to a landfill site
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Greenpeace picks legal fight over Hinkley nuclear project
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EDF delays Hinkley funding ‘until at least September’
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Hinkley C go-ahead ‘imminent’
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MPs call for scrutiny of nuclear negotiations
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Government approves Hinkley Point C
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Costain and McAlpine on track for £200m Hinkley civils win
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EDF seeks state backing for nuclear project
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Minister to hold talks over nuclear waste veto
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Centrica pulls plug on new nuclear investment
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EDF confirms delay to Hinkley decision
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EDF granted nuclear site licence at Hinkley
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Spending watchdog slams £1bn of overruns at Sellafield
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Hitachi buys Horizon nuclear for £696m
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Firms vie for £6bn nuclear decommissioning job
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French and Chinese drop bid to buy Horizon
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Sellafield retendering £1.4bn project
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Hinkley nuclear design approval back on track
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EDF boss says UK construction has 'productivity' problem
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Hinkley nuclear plant now a year behind schedule
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Costain and Balfour Beatty win £250m nuclear framework
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Japanese contractors in frame for £10bn Horizon nuclear job
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Nuclear boss quits Laing O'Rourke
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Hinkley Point deal 'unlikely'
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Contractors share in government nuclear funding
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Ministers must stop 'crossing fingers' on nuclear
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Cumbria nuclear waste storage plan 'dead'
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Sellafield sent nuclear waste to landfill
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Atkins joins EDF’s nuclear supply chain
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Councils appeal to PM over nuclear waste veto
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Hinkley Point nuclear plant wins design approval
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Hinkley Point nuclear design set for approval in 2012
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Five years before construction can begin on Horizon nuclear
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Hitachi tipped to buy Horizon Nuclear Power
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Firm fined after worker loses leg at Sellafield
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Areva and Atkins form nuclear partnership
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Sweett nets nuclear hat-trick
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Hinkley nuclear plant gets environmental approval
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Hinkley nuclear plant given EU approval
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Osborne launches £40bn infrastructure guarantee scheme
Features
Infrastructure: Nuclear decomissioning
David Hayes, Barbra Carlisle and Simon Rawlinson of EC Harris examine how the UK’s £3bn-a-year programme is evolving to deliver greater certainty and value for money
Alan Cumming: Worth the energy
EDF is planning the UK’s first new nuclear plant in 30 years. But it needs contractors with the right skills. Alan Cumming, EDF’s procurement boss, tells Building why it’s worth training up - and that you don’t need a French name to win the work
New industrialists: Waste and power station design
Dark satanic mills were once, in fact, exuberant celebrations of technology and design. Now Cabe’s new guidelines on power stations and waste facilities will try to put the architecture back into industry
Psychic power: The future of nuclear
In one way, the future for nuclear energy looks assured. In another, it’s at the mercy of all sorts of possible problems. Olivia Boyd shuffles the cards and identifies five of the biggest
The race to build Britain's nuclear reactors
Japanese-owned nuclear giant Westinghouse is in a race with France’s Areva for the UK’s £20bn nuclear reactor market. And it looks like it’s falling behind. We asked the man spearheading the bid if he was worried...
Nuclear: The path to power
A year ago, the nuclear new-build programme seemed like construction’s best hope of recovery. But since then, major players have withdrawn and concerns over electricity market reform have led to growing fears of delay, or even cancellation. Vern Pitt looks at where we are now
Nuclear alert: Future of £50bn new build plan
In the weeks following fukushima, the UK nuclear industry is already under review. what does this mean for the future of £50bn new build plan?
EDF nuclear boss talkin' about his generation
Alan Cumming wants your help building EDF’s third-generation nuclear power plants, which, if all goes to plan, means four multibillion-pound projects and more than 150 contracts up for grabs
Nuclear programme: The age of proliferation
Programme update: Over the next two decades, the nuclear industry is set to provide 64,000 man-years of construction-related work – enough to keep a lot of companies very busy indeed. David Rogers and Thom Gibbs look at who’s best placed to make the most of the bonanza
Nuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby
320,000 m³ of granite blasted away, 12,000 m³ of concrete poured in one go: the team building Europe's first nuclear reactor in a decade aren't messing around. Still, the most complicated thing is the paperwork. Thomas Lane reports from Finland
Comment
Nuclear: Delayed reaction
With fresh problems besetting EDF’s Hinkley Point project and rival Horizon’s scheme being reworked from scratch, should construction firms fear that the long-awaited nuclear bonanza may never happen at all?
(Nuclear) Reaction time
The Fukushima disaster has put pressure on Europe’s politicians to act expediently, says Alastair Stewart. But the signs are that the UK government will stick to its guns and go nuclear
Nuclear contracts: Ending in tiers
The second of our three-part series on the nuclear decommissioning sector looks at the target-cost clauses of tier two contracts – their benefits and pitfalls
Going nuclear: contracts for decommissioning work
Everything you wanted to know about the nuclear decommissioning sector but were afraid to ask – explained to you in a three-part series starting with this overview
Nuclear new-build: Proceed (with caution)
The nuclear new-build programme has a lot to offer, as long as you can navigate the regulatory and contractual minefield surrounding it
Legal energy: nuclear power stations
Paul Cowan A nuclear power station is about the hardest project it is possible to undertake. Here are the legal implications
