The Government is coming under increasing pressure from MPs to guarantee protections for the nuclear industry as the UK prepares to leave the body which regulates the sector across Europe.
Workers at Dounreay nuclear plant are to be balloted from today on whether to strike over a pay row.
Up to £56 million of funding is to be offered for research and development in mini-nuclear plants, the Government has announced.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced that there is a share of £4million available for a series of feasibility studies for nuclear reactor designs.
Wood has landed a $16million deal for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.
The nuclear power industry contributed £1 billion to Scotland’s economy last year and supports more than 12,000 jobs, according to a new report.
Thousands of workers at the Sellafield nuclear site will go on strike on Wednesday in separate disputes over pay.
A framework agreement by Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) has been secured by Wood to provide industrial services for the nuclear decommissioning site in Thurso.
Firefighters at the Sellafield nuclear site are to stage a fresh strike in a dispute over pay.
Dounreay nuclear plant is facing New Year strikes after trade unions officially served notice of a ballot on industrial action over pay.
Catering and security workers at the Sellafield nuclear site are to go on strike next week in a dispute over pay, joining thousands of other employees taking action on the same day.
Dounreay nuclear power workers could take strike action after refusing a new pay deal.
Workers at the Sellafield nuclear site are to stage a fresh strike in a dispute over pay.
Consumers have been dealt a “bad hand” by the Government over the near £20 billion Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, facing costs running to many times the original estimate, it has been warned.
The Trump administration is preparing new sanctions on North Korea, a day after declaring it a state sponsor of terrorism in a move to put additional pressure on Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.
Russian authorities have confirmed reports of a spike in radioactivity in the air over the Ural Mountains.
Dounreay bosses have been hit with an “over-subscription” of staff wanting to leave the nuclear plant under a redundancy programme which had sought 150 volunteers – 15% of the workforce.
The US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) achieved an important step towards restoring nuclear energy transient testing capability with the resumption of operations at the Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility.
A 60-year-old, 650-tonne chimney at the Sellafield nuclear site is being demolished - at the rate of one metre a week.
The Caithness skyline over Dounreay is to change forever as the £1.6billion clean-up of the nuclear plant – including demolishing the iconic golf ball – enters its final phase.
An apparent accident at a Russian facility is suspected of causing a recent spike in radioactivity in the air over much of Europe, according to a report by France's nuclear safety agency.
Drone inspections at Dounreay are saving the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds a year, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said yesterday.
Workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant are to stage a fresh strike in a dispute over pay.
Workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant are to stage a fresh strike in a dispute over pay.
Two UK companies have won a share of a multimillion-pound contract to supply radioactive waste containers to the Sellafield nuclear site.