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Hazardous substance improvements required at Sellafield 27 August 2024

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served two improvement notices on Sellafield Limited due to breaches of The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002. The enforcement action was taken after Sellafield failed to manage the risks of working with nickel nitrate and to prevent or adequately control exposure of workers to this hazardous substance in one of its effluent facilities....

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Essar appoints Wood to progress its Hydrogen Fuel Switching Project 27 August 2024

Essar Energy Transition (EET), the trading name of Essar Oil UK, has progressed to the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage of its Hydrogen Fuel Switching project. Hydrogen will be provided by EET Hydrogen, the company’s hydrogen-ready combined heat and power plant (CHP) to be built at its Stanlow refinery....

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Fire at Danish oil refinery brought under control 27 August 2024

A fire broke out at the Crossbridge Energy refinery in Fredericia, Denmark on 25 August before being brought under control after a few hours. The facility in the southeast of the Jutland peninsula supplies more than 35% of Denmark’s entire consumption of liquid fuels for shipping, aircraft, cars, tractors and lorries....

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Pharmaceutical factory explosion kills 17, injures 36 23 August 2024

An explosion and fire in southern India killed at least 17 people and injured dozens more after a solvent leak on 22 August. The blast occurred at around midday at a facility owned by Escientia Advanced Sciences in the state of Andhra Pradesh....

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FREE-to-attend Hazardex safety conference comes to Ellesmere Port on 25 September! 23 August 2024

Our popular one-day hazardous area showcase, Hazardex in the Regions, is coming to Ellesmere Port on 25 September 2024! It will include a conference programme consisting of leaders in the field of hazardous area engineering, sharing vital insights, knowledge, and experiences. The must-attend event also acts as a one-stop-shop with key vendors showing off their high hazard industry products & services in a table top Exhibition. Register your FREE places and check out the speaker line-up now!...

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Hazardex Live 2025 -- Call for Speakers now OPEN! 23 August 2024

We are now accepting abstract submissions from non-commercial speakers with experience and knowledge of process safety in high hazard industries to be considered for inclusion in the Hazardex Live 2025 Conference on 26 & 27 February 2025. If you are interested in sharing your expertise & insights with the wider hazardous area community, then submit an abstract before 27 September for consideration NOW!...

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Offshore natural gas pipeline explosion kills contractor 20 August 2024

An offshore natural gas pipeline explosion killed one person near the city of Venice, Louisiana on 17 August. Louisiana State Police was informed of an offshore explosion, fire, and report of a missing person in a marsh area near Venice in Plaquemines Parish at around 20:00 local time....

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EDF Renewables planning to bring over 300MW of UK battery storage projects online 20 August 2024

EDF Renewables UK is set to bring more than 300MW of battery storage online to support the decarbonisation of the UK’s grid. The plans include six projects in construction which are set to go live in the next 12 months, including a 57MW battery in Braintree, Essex and a 47.5MW battery in Indian Queens Saint Austell....

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Companies comply with two enforcement notices for fire safety shortfalls at Hinkley Point C 19 August 2024

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has confirmed that licensee NNB Generation Company Ltd and contractor REEL UK Ltd have complied with two enforcement notices served on them for shortfalls in fire safety at the Hinkley Point C construction site....

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Nuclear safety situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is “deteriorating” 19 August 2024

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said that the nuclear safety situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is deteriorating following a drone strike that hit the road around the plant site perimeter on 17 August....

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