{"id":89838,"date":"2018-03-12T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f9f79377e917879579e3babefcfae35e"},"modified":"2018-03-12T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:30:34","slug":"news-story-nda-shows-off-its-expertise-on-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89838","title":{"rendered":"News story: NDA shows off its expertise on the world stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Addressing hundreds of delegates at the 2018 Civil Nuclear Showcase, Dr Simper told the audience that \u201call aspects of the NDA\u2019s experience is commercially available\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Run by the UK\u2019s Department of International Trade, the event promotes opportunities for international collaboration across all areas of the nuclear sector.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Simper highlighted the progress being made in decommissioning and hazard reduction at the NDA\u2019s 17 nuclear sites across the UK, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the removal of waste from the oldest and most challenging plants at the Sellafield site in West Cumbria<\/li>\n<li>the removal of almost all of the spent nuclear fuel from the Magnox nuclear reactors<\/li>\n<li>innovative technology being used to safely carry out decommissioning work in a variety of challenging and hazardous environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Simper said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The UK nuclear industry leads the world in many areas of its work to decommission and clean up the legacy from the earliest days of the civil nuclear legacy,<\/p>\n<p>Even though we have different reactor types, our waste management, decommissioning and spent fuel management capabilities are very applicable to Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China and other markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are eager to work with international suppliers and industry colleagues, maximising the benefit of our learning and experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The event provides an opportunity to network with a diverse mix of senior international and UK delegates representing government, utilities, technology providers, major contracting companies and all tiers of the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, technology that was developed through NDA funding was used to measure radiation levels in the damaged Fukushima reactors. The RISER drone carries a sophisticated radiation detection and mapping system which was originally used to examine conditions in the remaining Windscale Pile chimney at Sellafield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts from around the globe heard about the NDA&#8217;s commercial opportunities from Dr Adrian Simper, Strategy and Technology Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}