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22/05/2015
1,600 Job Losses Announced At Magnox
1,600 jobs are to be axed at 12 Magnox nuclear power sites by September 2016.
The 12 nuclear power sites managed by Magnox are: Berkeley, Gloucestershire; Bradwell, Essex; Chapelcross, Dumfriesshire; Dungeness A, Kent; Harwell, Oxfordshire; Hinkley Point A, Somerset; Hunterston A, Ayrshire; Oldbury, Gloucestershire; Sizewell A, Suffolk; Trawsfynydd, North Wales; Winfrith, Dorset; and Wylfa, Anglesey, North Wales.
Gary Smith, GMB National Secretary for Energy, said: "GMB will seek talks with Magnox and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to discuss these job losses and the lack of progress on nuclear new build.
"It was always envisaged that many of these workers would be moving over to the nuclear new build sites as the work on decommissioning and clean-up is finished.
"Disarray in the nuclear sector is leading to delays and now Hinkley Point C is being held up. GMB consider that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority should be re-tasked and renamed the Nuclear Development Authority to get momentum on behalf to the UK State into the much needed new build rather than relying on the French and Chinese States to do the job for us."
(CD/JP)
The 12 nuclear power sites managed by Magnox are: Berkeley, Gloucestershire; Bradwell, Essex; Chapelcross, Dumfriesshire; Dungeness A, Kent; Harwell, Oxfordshire; Hinkley Point A, Somerset; Hunterston A, Ayrshire; Oldbury, Gloucestershire; Sizewell A, Suffolk; Trawsfynydd, North Wales; Winfrith, Dorset; and Wylfa, Anglesey, North Wales.
Gary Smith, GMB National Secretary for Energy, said: "GMB will seek talks with Magnox and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to discuss these job losses and the lack of progress on nuclear new build.
"It was always envisaged that many of these workers would be moving over to the nuclear new build sites as the work on decommissioning and clean-up is finished.
"Disarray in the nuclear sector is leading to delays and now Hinkley Point C is being held up. GMB consider that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority should be re-tasked and renamed the Nuclear Development Authority to get momentum on behalf to the UK State into the much needed new build rather than relying on the French and Chinese States to do the job for us."
(CD/JP)
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