Sentences with phrase «aea technology»

Advising the trustees of the AEA Technology Pension Scheme on a Regulated Apportionment Agreement, clearance applications, winding up powers, and member communications

But in May a secret review of the move commissioned by the department concluded that it would be cheaper to close the laboratory, sack half the staff and transfer the rest to AEA Technology, the government laboratory at Harwell, Oxfordshire.

With the impending closure of Warren Spring, the DTI is considering transferring its contaminated - land team to AEA Technology, where there is also some expertise in the matter.

Government funding for this runs out in 1997, but AEA Technology has commercial contracts, chiefly from overseas research reactors, that will keep reprocessing going after that.

The European fast reactor programme — led by Britain, France and Germany — had hoped to carry out important research at the fast reactor research centre at Dounreay in Scotland, which is operated by AEA Technology.

Moreover, in the extreme cold of the upper troposphere, ozone's radiation - trapping properties are thirty times greater than at ground level, says Colin Johnson at AEA Technology near Oxford.

Engineers from AEA Technology and the company Herbert Beven have devised the system, which decomposes tyres at high temperature.

Nick Priest, manager of the biomedical research laboratory at AEA Technology in Harwell, says the Japanese claims are wrong in parts.

Chris Bishop of AEA Technology says that the best condition for fusion, where turbulence in the plasma is at a minimum, is also the hardest to set up.

Mike Thorne, a uranium expert from AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire, formerly part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, points out that as an alpha - emitter, it poses a similar risk to plutonium if it gets inside the body.

However, PA also pointed out that transferring Warren Spring staff to AEA Technology would reduce competition for government contracts in environmental research.

Last month, the DTI announced that it would close Warren Spring and transfer most staff to AEA Technology, another government laboratory at Harwell, in Oxfordshire.

According to AEA Technology's National Environment Technology Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire — which monitors air pollution for the Department of the Environment — ozone pollution peaked in the summer heat waves of 1989 and 1990.

But PA said that Pounds Sterling 32 million could be saved by cancelling the transfer, closing the laboratory and transferring some staff to AEA Technology.

A consortium led by the British company AEA Technology is being funded by the European Commission to find ways to shut down the reactors and make the concrete «sarcophagus» over the ruined reactor safe.

According to Chris Smith, Labour's environment spokesman, «The closure of Warren Spring is clearly part of a plan to fatten up AEA Technology for privatisation.»

An international team led by AEA Technology, based in Harwell near Oxford, is studying RBMKs.

Nevertheless, in the past year, «it has caught the eye of politicians and appears to be a «magic solution»,» says Ron Flowers, chief nuclear technologist at Britain's AEA Technology.

Not exact matches

• AEA Investors closed its previously announced acquisition of Excelitas Technologies, the Waltham, Massachusetts - based provider of photonics technology solution from Veritas Capital.