{"id":1390,"date":"2025-07-27T07:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:02:46","slug":"countering-capenhurst-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Countering Capenhurst \u2013 July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>DRS served an improvement notice by the ONR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an improvement notice on a Carlisle-based specialist rail freight company that carries nuclear material.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In November 2024, Direct Rail Services Limited (DRS) temporarily suspended movements of UN Class 7 (radioactive material) dangerous goods when it was discovered that its appointed subcontractor was not complying with applicable regulations.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-north-west wp-block-embed-north-west\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0lJhWpfCdM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\/news\/2154698-improvements-required-at-cumbrian-nuclear-material-rail-freight-company\">Improvements required at Cumbrian nuclear material rail freight company<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Improvements required at Cumbrian nuclear material rail freight company&#8221; &#8212; North West\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\/news\/2154698-improvements-required-at-cumbrian-nuclear-material-rail-freight-company\/embed#?secret=7MWj5CAjk1#?secret=0lJhWpfCdM\" data-secret=\"0lJhWpfCdM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>DRS gets nuclear rocket from UK regulator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DRS has been handed an official Improvement Notice from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/business\/2025\/07\/16\/drs-gets-nuclear-rocket-from-uk-regulator\">https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/business\/2025\/07\/16\/drs-gets-nuclear-rocket-from-uk-regulator<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>URENCO and Capenhurst News Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Urenco announces no stabilisation for \u20ac500m bond offering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Urenco Finance N.V. announced Monday that no stabilisation activities were undertaken for its recent \u20ac500 million bond offering, according to a post-stabilisation notice issued by Deutsche Bank AG (ETR:DBKGn), Frankfurt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The 10-year notes, guaranteed by Urenco Limited and its subsidiaries, carry a 3.625% coupon and are due on June 18, 2035. The securities were issued at a price of 99.415% with a spread of 116.3 basis points over the German government bond (DBR 2\u00bd 02\/35).&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/company-news\/urenco-announces-no-stabilisation-for-500m-bond-offering-93CH-4133357\">https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/company-news\/urenco-announces-no-stabilisation-for-500m-bond-offering-93CH-4133357<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Working with the RI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Urenco has teamed up with the Royal Institution (Ri) to support its interactive laboratory for young people.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/explore-science\/explore\/blog\/urenco-partners-royal-institution-boost-science-learning-young-people\"><strong>https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/explore-science\/explore\/blog\/urenco-partners-royal-institution-boost-science-learning-young-people<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Other News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One of three National Union of Plutonium workers has reached a new deal with the Nukiller authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Workers at Great British Energy \u2013 Nuclear (GBE-N) will now be represented in pay negotiations by the Prospect union, after a recognition agreement was signed between the two organisations.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-new-civil-engineer wp-block-embed-new-civil-engineer\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2UrJS6HUd0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/latest\/great-british-energy-nuclear-signs-with-prospect-for-good-unionised-jobs-in-clean-energy-04-07-2025\/\">Great British Energy \u2013 Nuclear signs with Prospect for \u2018good, unionised jobs in clean energy&#8217;<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Great British Energy \u2013 Nuclear signs with Prospect for \u2018good, unionised jobs in clean energy&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; New Civil Engineer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/latest\/great-british-energy-nuclear-signs-with-prospect-for-good-unionised-jobs-in-clean-energy-04-07-2025\/embed\/#?secret=JsR8kPlCLp#?secret=2UrJS6HUd0\" data-secret=\"2UrJS6HUd0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other two National Unions of Plutonium workers are the GMB &amp; Unite the Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>New Build &#8211; \u00a338bn for Sizewell C<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jul\/22\/uk-deal-sizewell-c-nuclear-power-plant-investors-edf\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jul\/22\/uk-deal-sizewell-c-nuclear-power-plant-investors-edf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Book Resource<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Gibson, Neil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Line by Line:<\/strong>   <strong>Cumbria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amberley Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stroud, Gloucestershire \u2013 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ISBN &#8211; 978 1 3981 0486 0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is a book of photographs of trains passing through Cumbria taken between 2003 and 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It includes many photos which show DRS engines hauling Nukiller Waste Flasks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Coming events \u2013 Recent Events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Whitehaven, Barrow, Capenhurst, Springfield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leafleting about the DRS Nukiller Waste Trains at Various Stations such as Preston, and Wigan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some leafleting was done at Warrington during July and more at other stations will be done over the next few weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We need more activists in order to make these events happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DRS served an improvement notice by the ONR &#8216;The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an improvement notice on a Carlisle-based specialist rail freight company that carries nuclear material. In November 2024, Direct Rail Services Limited (DRS) temporarily suspended movements of UN Class 7 (radioactive material) dangerous goods when it was discovered that its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Countering Capenhurst \u2013 July 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countering-capenhurst","category-nukiller-waste-trains","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}