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Engineers seek input from industry...

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leaf Engineering alliance, Engineering the Future (EtF), is today inviting comment from the supply chain and related industries on a series of best practice guides for nuclear new build.

 The three guides - Nuclear Lessons Learned Guidance on Best Practice: High Integrity Welding / Concrete / Nuclear Safety Culture  - follow on from the alliance’s initial report last year, which identified five common lessons from past and current projects to be applied to the current and future UK new build programme to help ensure timely and efficient delivery.

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 July 2011 13:52

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EEF backs Env Audit Committee criticism..

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leafCommenting on today’s report by the Environmental Audit Committee on environmental taxation, Steve Radley, Director of Policy at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said:

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 July 2011 13:58

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Government reductions: Bad for solar energy

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leafGovernment reductions to Feed-In tariff rates for solar PV are a bad choice: Bad for the solar energy sector and bad for the UK economy.

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 July 2011 14:02

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Bright Future for West Yorkshire as Clean Up of Former Hickson Chemical Works Gets Underway in Castleford

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Aeternum, the developer that owns the former Hickson Chemical Works in Castleford, West Yorkshire, are awaiting the findings of an expert industry group as it nears the end of a £1.2 million trial to look at techniques to clean up residual contamination left behind on parts of the site by nearly a century of chemical industry.

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Government backed trials show quiet night-time deliveries work

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The realisation of the environmental, economic and road safety benefits of delivering goods out-of-hours has taken a significant step forward with the results of the Quiet Delivery Demonstration Scheme (QDDS) trials, announced today (28 June) at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in London at a conference attended by Transport Minister Mike Penning.

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