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What, No Cars??

July 23, 2010 – 9:29 am

One of the first things I’m asked after telling someone that I’m currently working for Rolls-Royce is “I bet they have good company cars!” – or something along those lines… After the first couple times of this happening and a few confusion covered smiles later, I decided it was time to learn a little history… [...]

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Guten Tag from the IAEA

June 16, 2010 – 8:42 am

What a massive complex the UNO city is! It has it’s own bank, post office and tax free supermarket amongst other things although as I am only an intern I am not allowed into the supermarket. My office is located on the 26th floor which for people that know my fear of heights, it is not [...]

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Secondment 1

June 4, 2010 – 4:50 pm

I am about to finish my first Nucleargraduates 8 month secondment. This seems a good time to reflect on my time in West Cumbria and on my first 8 months on the Nucleargraduates scheme, where my work has been focused on decommissioning.

It all started back in September with the Nucleargraduates Cohort 3 ‘development training [...]

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Diary of a General Election from DECC

May 18, 2010 – 2:56 pm

Some time in the distant past – Purdah begins
The election is called and excitement is in the air. The prospect of having little ‘real’ work to do and instead having to write countless briefings for every possible election scenario (except a Tory/Lib Dem coalition it seems), does little to dampen election fever.

6 May, 09:30

Election day [...]

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UK Decommissioning vs. US Decommissioning

November 27, 2009 – 2:34 pm

During my visit to the Idaho National Laboratory I wanted to meet with some people from their decommissioning and clean-up team to make comparisons between decommissioning in the UK and the US.
There are immediately visible differences if not purely from the amount of land that each has to work with. As an example, the UK’s [...]

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Six months in the U.S. of A

November 27, 2009 – 2:30 pm

I’m very quickly coming to the end of my 6 months out in Washington DC and feel sad that it’s nearly over. I was lucky enough to secure a secondment with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE’s) working in the international office within the Office of Nuclear Energy.  I have been involved in a wide [...]

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Sighting - International Celebrity of the Nuclear World!

November 27, 2009 – 2:27 pm

News from Washington DC
When you think of one of the well known “celebrities” of the nuclear world you imagine a whole entourage of secret service men wearing Men in Black style suits talking into the cuffs of their jackets.  Which is why I was so surprised when I bumped into the International Atomic Energy Agency’s [...]

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A Licence to… Build?

November 5, 2009 – 11:16 am

I am coming towards the end of my placement with Westinghouse and it has been quite an exciting time to be part of the licensing team. My days have been spent working between the Westinghouse head offices in Preston and the Rolls Royce offices in Warrington. I have meetings in various other places dropped in-between [...]

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Stop: Outage Time!

October 21, 2009 – 12:40 pm

Oldbury was initially due to cease generation in 2009 but had it’s lifetime extended by the NII following the Generation Optimisation (GO) project.  Requirements of this project are the successful completion of outages for both reactors.  This is where the reactor is shutdown to allow maintenance, repair and inspection work to take place.  Reactor 2’s [...]

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Talking About My Generation

October 21, 2009 – 12:38 pm

August ‘09
My second placement is working for Magnox North at Oldbury Power Station.  Along with Wylfa, it is one of just two sites in the NDA’s portfolio that is still operational.  The site has two reactors which consist of a graphite core and use carbon dioxide as coolant.
I am working in the Station Physics department [...]

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