Apprenticeships – Page 4 – Cleaning up our nuclear past: faster, safer and sooner

A 120-year mission: securing the skills needed for UK nuclear decommissioning

Beccy Pleasant - previously NDA Head of Skills and Talent and Natasha Hanson, 15 January 2016 - Skills, Socio-economic

Natasha Hanson, Head of HR Strategy and Delivery, and Beccy Pleasant, Head of Skills and Talent, describe the challenges around maintaining a skilled workforce for such a long-term mission. They share the work underway to overcome these challenges, and seek your views on this approach.

50 years of knowledge helps build range of unique devices

Calder Bain - Dounreay's Senior Design Engineer, 17 December 2015 - Innovation/savings, Skills

Calder Bain, who started his apprenticeship in the 1960s at Dounreay and worked on the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) before it was built, is part of the site’s in-house design team responsible for safely dismantling the reactor. He ponders on the unique challenges they face.