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December 22, 2008 - Sizewell A
Optimising discharges to save costs
Work is underway on Sizewell’s Direct Discharge of Effluent project, which aims to save £500k per year for the NDA through reductions to the site’s energy and maintenance costs.
December 22, 2008 - Sizewell A
New facility bolsters emergency response
Sizewell’s new Emergency Control Building was put to the test in November during the annual demonstration exercise to the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. The facility functioned without mishap and Sizewell passed the exercise with flying colours.
December 22, 2008 - Sizewell A
Sizewell wins prestigious transport award
Sizewell has won a Freight Transport Authority Award for outstanding vehicle maintenance. David Wylie of the FTA travelled to Sizewell to present the prestigious award back in October.
December 18, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Hinkley Christmas card success
It is the time of year when Hinkley Point A have been out in the community collecting entries for the annual Christmas card competition.
December 17, 2008 - Dungeness A
Making marked progress
Dungeness A has successfully tackled two of its most significant hazards as part of the NDA’s prioritisation process for major hazard reduction.
December 17, 2008 - Dungeness A
Go ahead for roof replacement
Approval to start critical safety work on replacing the roof on reactor one at Dungeness A has been given the green light.
December 17, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Hinkley's new trans-frontier shipment
The Environment Agency (EA) has recently approved an application for Hinkley’s second trans-frontier shipment authorisation. This will allow the continuation of a metal melt process, with up to 400 tonnes of low level waste (LLW) metal authorised to be shipped to the US for smelting and re-use within the nuclear industry.
December 17, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell goes the extra mile
Around 15 volunteers including Magnox South managing director Mark Lesinski, took part in the first Bradwell beach clean recently, organised by the site\'s environmental team.
December 17, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Stakeholders part of Hinkley ILW assessment
Members of the solid intermediate level waste (SILW) management team at Hinkley recently invited a number of stakeholders to join them in a best practical environmental option (BPEO) assessment workshop to determine the preferred method of dealing with the SILW that is currently held in four Magnox debris vaults at site.
December 17, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell skips forward with innovation
An innovative solution to storing spent fuel ponds skips, skip baskets and liners waiting for dispatch has been utilised at Bradwell.
December 15, 2008
Competition of Magnox South announced
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), owners of the sites managed by Magnox South, have announced the competition schedule for the remaining Site Licence Companies, including Magnox South Ltd.
December 15, 2008
Stand up for Safety marks a company first
A recent company-wide stand-down marked the launch of a new approach to sharing information between senior executives and the rest of the workforce.
December 02, 2008
Support pledged to BIBIC fund
The British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC) has expressed gratitude after Magnox South owner, EnergySolutions, stepped in and donated £5,000 after a devastating fire destroyed a key part of its national treatment centre in Bridgwater, Somerset.
December 02, 2008 - Berkeley
Community newsletter gets boost from Berkeley Site
A local community newspaper received a boost from Berkeley Site when Site Director, Jim Crocker, presented the editorial team with a laptop computer.
December 01, 2008
ILW stakeholder workshop report published
The output of a stakeholder workshop held to consider potential alternative Intermediate Level Waste storage options has been published.
November 18, 2008
Online blog launched at SSG chair briefing
Mark Lesinski, Managing Director of Magnox South, has taken the opportunity of meeting Site Stakeholder Group (SSG) chairs to record his first video blog.
October 27, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell goes back to nature
A team from Bradwell has been working on ways to improve the site's nature trail in the hope that it will encourage more staff and members of the public to make use of the green areas surrounding the site.
October 27, 2008 - Dungeness A
Dungeness raises £4,000 for Oliver Curd Charitable Trust
When staff at Dungeness heard about the Oliver Curd Charitable Trust they decided that they wanted to support this good cause. A 'Dungeness United' charity football match was the start of two months of charitable initiatives which culminated in more that £4,000 being raised for the trust.
October 27, 2008 - Sizewell A
Cutting Edge
While walking through the turbine hall in recent times at Sizewell you couldn't help but notice the giant tellow tent at the back of the building. The tent housed a redundant gas circulator bowl.
October 23, 2008 - Berkeley
Berkeley celebrates PBI success
Berkeley site is celebrating after achieving all its performance based incentives (PBIs) for this year, with two completed before their due date. These are annual performance targets set by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
October 21, 2008
Cast iron stakeholder engagement on ILW options
Stakeholders representing a range of constituencies and community groups close to the five Magnox South sites recently took part in a workshop to consider a possible change in the way operational intermediate level waste (ILW) is managed in respect of decommissioning programmes .
October 20, 2008
Looking after our assets
Magnox South has embarked on a comprehensive asset management programme to ensure the integrity of plant around all sites.
October 20, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Hinkley's room with a view
Many staff have found themselves packing their belongings and moving premises at Hinkley.
October 09, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Hinkley pond deplant gets a boost
Eleven Sizewell A workers have arrived at Hinkley to undertake a short term assignment, supporting the ongoing cooling pond deplant and decommissioning activities.
October 02, 2008 - Dungeness A
Dungeness celebrates ISO audit success
Dungeness A has successfully maintained certification to ISO standards in Quality, Environment and Safety.
October 01, 2008
Farewell to Magnox Electric Ltd
On 1 October the re-structuring of Magnox Electric was successfully completed. The nuclear site licences for five of the UK’s Magnox sites* are now held by Magnox South Limited.
September 18, 2008 - Dungeness A
Commitment of Dungeness staff commended
Alan Parker, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of EnergySolutions, the parent body organisation of Magnox South, visited Dungeness A on 15 and 16 September. As well as meeting with site director Mark England and members of the lead team, Alan also took a tour of the site.
September 11, 2008
A UK first for IEMA
Magnox has become the first company in the country to achieve accreditation across a multi-sited organisation with IEMA - the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.
September 01, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell hosts first decommissioning peer review
Bradwell has achieved a world first by hosting an IAEA Decommissioning Peer Review.
September 01, 2008 - Bradwell
Local primary school gets playing!
St. Nicholas Primary School in Tillingham were delighted to receive a donation from Magnox South owner, EnergySolutions, towards some new play equipment in the playground. The money started off a fundraising campaign to buy some ‘Snug’ play apparatus which is adaptable, safe, creative and promotes active play among the pupils.
September 01, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell Village Hall gets a facelift
Magnox South owner, EnergySolutions, have donated £2,000 towards the refurbishment project at Bradwell Village Hall as part of the Magnox South sponsorship scheme. Following a donation the previous year from Bradwell Site owner, the NDA, the team working on the project successfully refurbished the upper level of the hall including the committee room, stage, toilets and storage. As part of the project an accessible toilet and veranda were installed which can now be accessed via a wheelchair ramp.
August 28, 2008 - Berkeley
David Drew MP visits Berkeley Site
David Drew MP for Stroud District visited the Berkeley Site today to meet the Site Director, Jim Crocker and undertake a familiarisation tour. David was given the chance to see decommissioning work taking place first hand and meet staff and contractors at the site. We thank David for his continued support for Berkeley Site.
August 28, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
College planners visit Hinkley
A group of engineers from Bridgwater College visited Hinkley this month to view the Deplant Mockup Simulator. The simulator was built in the deplanted turbine hall last year to support the retraining of Magnox South staff for decommissioning roles.
August 27, 2008 - Berkeley
Berkeley Site celebrates yet more success at the recent RoSPA Awards
This year RoSPA presented Berkeley Site with another prestigious Presidents Award. This is the site’s 14th consecutive award and was presented for an outstanding performance in health and safety at work. In deciding which award is appropriate, RoSPA looks at various site performance indicators. These include measures of occupational health, safety management systems and culture. RoSPA also look for consistent application of risk control measures, actions to reduce events and injuries and the number of days lost due to accident and ill health.
August 27, 2008 - Berkeley
EnergySolutions Chief Operations Officer visits Berkeley Site
Alan Parker, EnergySolutions Chief Operations Officer, visited the Berkeley Site today to meet the Site Director, Jim Crocker and undertake a familiarisation tour. EnergySolutions is the current Parent Body Organisation (PBO) for Magnox South and Alan will be visiting other Magnox sites in both Magnox North and Magnox South. The comprehensive tour was given to show just how much decommissioning work has already been safely undertaken at the Berkeley Site since the site stopped generating electricity in 1989.
August 25, 2008
Magnox graduates climb the wall
Magnox Electric graduates raised more than £3,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) after climbing 7052 metres – over three quarters the height of Mount Everest – at a special event in Bristol on Saturday.
August 21, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
College given a book boost from Hinkley Point A
Pupils from Robert Blake Science College were celebrating more than their GCSE results on Thursday as they were also presented with their leavers’ yearbooks.
August 01, 2008 - Berkeley
Digging Deep at Berkeley Site
As part of the future preparations for the construction of an ILW store at Berkeley Site work has been in progress to lay a piling platform. The work follows on from the landscaping of the proposed ILW store area with some 4600 new trees which will act as screening for the store when it is eventually built.
July 30, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Pipebridge Removal
Over the last few months the Hinkley skyline has been changing........
July 30, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
POP scheme raises more than £6,500 for Penrose
Hinkley Point A site director, Bob Kury, joined a selection of site staff on a visit Penrose School this month to present pupils with a cheque raised via the site ‘POP’ (PEARL, observation and POWSA) scheme.
July 24, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Hinkley helps Otterhampton pupils climb the wall
A new climbing frame was unveiled at Otterhampton Primary School this month, thanks to a donation from Hinkley Point A on behalf of its management company, EnergySolutions.
July 15, 2008
Mark Lesinski named Managing Director of Magnox South
Mark Lesinski has been named to take over as the new Managing Director of Magnox South, which is currently defuelling and decommissioning five nuclear power station sites in the south and west of the UK on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
July 15, 2008
Talkin' about regeneration - Magnox South socio-economic scheme
Four community projects in the south-east have received development grants through Magnox South worth over £127,000; donations which support the NDA in meeting its socio-economic obligations, set out by government in the Energy Act 2004.
July 14, 2008
A first for Magnox South stakeholder engagement
A new approach to stakeholder engagement was pioneered by Magnox South recently – and gained excellent feedback from attendees.
July 14, 2008
Leading the way for safety
Magnox South’s first Safety Representatives’ Conference was held in March at the Paramount Oxford Hotel. The Conference was designed by the Southern Sites Health and Safety Advisory Committee to provide a forum for safety representatives to share ideas and help contribute to making a positive difference across Magnox South.
July 14, 2008
NVQ success celebrated
Part of Bridgwater College, near Hinkley Point which houses the Magnox South Decommissioning Skills Centre at Cannington, was the location for a special event recently, when the chairman and chief executive of EnergySolutions, Steve Creamer, flew in from America to present certificates to the company’s first achievers of the City & Guilds Nuclear Decommissioning NVQ Level 2.
July 10, 2008
WANO Technical Support Mission
Dungeness A and Sizewell recently hosted a WANO TSM (World Association of Nuclear Operators Technical Support Mission) focused on systems engineering.
July 10, 2008
Another year of RoSPA success
Magnox Electric Ltd has been awarded the RoSPA Engineering Construction Sector Award 2008. It is the second year in a row that the company has been awarded the honour, recognising performance across the ten Magnox sites.
July 10, 2008
Hazard reduction in safe hands: Three years of success
Magnox South has launched its second Achievements Brochure. 'Hazard reduction in safe hands' highlights the major achievements for the organisation over the past year, as well as some of the more notable milestones over the three years since the launch of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
July 07, 2008 - Berkeley
Berkeley Site supports Stroud High School achieve BA Silver Crest Award
Year 10 pupils from Stroud High School are celebrating this week after receiving the prestigious BA Silver Crest Award, which is given for outstanding achievements in Science, Engineering and Maths. The pupils were set a real life engineering project by Berkeley Nuclear Licensed Site, who have been working with the students for the past 8 months. Berkeley Site Engineer, Ruth March and Physics Teacher, Iain Green led the project and provided the students with expert advice as well as arranging for a group of the students to visit the Berkeley Site.
July 02, 2008 - Berkeley
Cleaning day success
With safety and compliance top of the agenda at Berkeley Site, a third housekeeping day was held on site in July. Staff, agency and contractors were put into hard hitting taskforce teams and sent out with one mission to de-clutter, clean and raise the overall standard of housekeeping across of the site. The clean up mission continued well into the afternoon and again proved a real success in making a recognisable improvement in appearance of work areas across the whole site. Site Director, Jim Crocker said: “yet again this has proved a valuable task to undertake. Safety and compliance are our top priorities and good housekeeping is a key way to ensure both of these are met. Thank you again to all those who took part and helped make a real improvement on site.”
June 11, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell's Peregrines
Bradwell Site has confirmed that it has become a chosen spot for a pair of nesting peregrine falcons which have been observed on the top of the Reactor 1 roof (the reactor nearest to the river).
June 05, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell receives RoSPA gold medal
Bradwell Site is a confirmed winner of one of the prestigious Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Occupational Health and Safety Awards this year. The site has received the RoSPA gold award for eight consecutive years which qualifies the site to receive its 4th Gold Medal for sustained achievement.
June 04, 2008 - Dungeness A
NDA programme director visits Dungeness
Brian Burnett, the NDA programme director responsible for the Magnox South sites, visited Dungeness today.
April 14, 2008 - Berkeley
Stroud MP, David Drew, Key Speaker at Berkeley Community Evening
Stroud MP David Drew was the key speaker at a recent Berkeley Nuclear Licensed Site Community Evening. Mr Drew addressed an audience of over 70 local stakeholders at the event held in the Great Hall at Berkeley Castle.
April 02, 2008 - Sizewell A
Locals at Sizewell get a taste for waste
The Environment Agency commended Sizewell A for setting a new benchmark in nuclear sector stakeholder engagement, when the site involved a truly representative range of community groups in a study to survey management options for its Fuel Element Debris (FED).
March 17, 2008 - Berkeley
Vale Vision gets smart
Vale Vision Development Trust in Dursley have gone all SMART thanks to a donation from Berkeley Nuclear Licensed Site. As part of the Berkeley Site's socio-economic development activities it has donated a new £2500 SMART white board to the trust's shop in Dursley. The new board is interactive and can therefore be used in conjunction with the trusts IT equipment. This will allow the delivery of training and development packages to the local community and to those currently unemployed, seeking new skills to aid them with future employment.
February 18, 2008
National Skills Academy for Nuclear launch welcomed
Magnox South joined forces with over 175 nuclear employers to support Skills Minister David Lammy and Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks in January as they marked the official launch of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear (NSAN).
February 18, 2008
Simulator key to reskilling effort
Magnox South’s new training facility, known as the Deplanting Mock-up Simulator (DMS), has been launched. The DMS will serve as the cornerstone to worker reskilling as the company offers opportunities for employees to retrain for new roles in the decommissioning environment.
February 15, 2008 - Sizewell A
Going, going, gone
Sizewell A has been busy identifying opportunities to demonstrate efficiency and innovation as work gets underway to decommission the former power station. Using the existing workforce to ‘self perform’ deplanting activities offers extra value to the site owner, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
February 14, 2008 - Hinkley Point A
Apprentice steams to victory
An apprentice at Hinkley Point A Site has been awarded second place in the Engineering Employers Federation Apprentice of the Year competition for Somerset.
February 13, 2008 - Dungeness A
Site marks International Standards success
Dungeness A has been successful in its bid to be re-accredited with three International Standards (ISO) for safety, quality and the environment. The achievement followed an inspection by auditors who complimented the site on the integration of safety, quality and environmental factors with all activities at the plant.
January 21, 2008 - Bradwell
Lights Out
The lights in the Reactor Boiler House Buildings at Bradwell were switched off on 10 February 2008 marking the end of an era for the skyline around the local area. Following the end of generation and completion of defuelling, the decision was made to switch off the lights to help reduce the site’s energy consumption.
January 21, 2008 - Bradwell
Graduates get in the picture
Magnox Electric Ltd continues to recognise the need to bring more young people in to the industry and in 2006 began recruiting graduates from around the country to join a formal graduate scheme.
January 21, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell support local farming community
The site has engaged with Maldon District Council’s drive to create better links between rural farmers and the local authorities. Barny Richardson is the Council’s Rural Business Advisor, who supports the farming and rural business community by helping them with planning, business development, pre-planning application meetings, relocation of businesses, liaison with planning officers and the reuse of farm buildings.
January 21, 2008 - Bradwell
Bradwell raise thousands for charity
2007 saw Bradwell staff participate in a number of events in a bid to raise thousands of pounds for charity.
