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US-based Jacobs said it has been awarded several contracts worth more than $25 million in total for work on nuclear fusion projects in the UK and France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 16 April 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjacobs-awarded-several-nuclear-fusion-contracts-7873764
The UK intends to leave the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), according to explanatory notes to a bill the government published yesterday authorising Brexit. The notes state the bill empowers the prime minister to leave both the European Union and Euratom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 27 January 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-nuclear-industry-faces-prospect-of-Euratom-exit
Following UK media reports questioning the future of UK's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the Joint European Torus (JET) in the wake of the UK's expected withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit), CCFE head Ian Chapman said on 30 November that "nothing has changed". JET is the largest tokamak in the world and the only operational fusion experiment currently capable of producing fusion energy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsconcern-over-future-of-uk-fusion-research-5689165
"Nothing has changed" regarding the future for the UK's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the Joint European Torus (JET), centre head Ian Chapman said today.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 30 November 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Post-Brexit-business-as-usual-at-JET
The UK's vote to leave the European Union (EU) will not affect Electricite de France's strategy, which includes the planned construction of the GBP18bn ($25bn) Hinkley Point NPP. "We think that this vote has no impact on our strategy," EDF CEO Jean-Bernard Levy told reporters in Paris. "The strategy for our British subsidiary is unchanged."
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 27 June 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsthe-uncertainties-of-brexit-4933924