01 December 2011
Burges Salmon has advised the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on its agreement to transfer an NDA-owned site at Capenhurst in Cheshire to URENCO, a major uranium enrichment supplier which currently occupies an adjacent nuclear-licensed site.
01 July 2011
Leading UK law firm Burges Salmon continues its reign as one of the UK's premier real estate advisers after winning the title of Real Estate Team of the Year at the prestigious Lawyer Awards 2011 held last month (21 June).
02 March 2011
Burges Salmon is pleased to announce that its Guide to Nuclear Law (written in 2010) is now available for distribution.
24 November 2009
On 10 November 2009 Ed Miliband released the first six National Policy Statements on Energy, which are designed to guide the decision making process of the Infrastructure Planning Commission established under the Planning Act 2008. Click on the link to read more.
24 November 2009
Information about NDA's asset disposal programme and the sales process undertaken by EDF Energy for two of its sites.
24 November 2009
In September 2009, UKAEA Ltd was sold by the Government to Babcock International Group for £50 million.
24 November 2009
On the 21 September the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced the launch of the competition to secure a new Parent Body Organisation to take ownership of the Dounreay Site Restoration Limited Site Licence Company.
24 November 2009
DECC, DWP and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) intend to lay a Legislative Reform Order before Parliament by the end of 2009.
24 November 2009
The revised regime proposes to remove waste and materials from the scope of the RSA and replace the current suite of EOs with one that provides conditional exemptions only. DECC intend to incorporate the revised regime directly into the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007 which are due to come into force in 2010.
28 October 2009
We advised the NDA on the completion of the sale of land adjacent to the nuclear site at Sellafield in Cumbria.
24 June 2009
We have been named Infrastructure/Energy Team of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2009. We're really pleased with this achievement, especially as this is the first year the award has been given. This recognises the hard work put in across the firm, as people in every area have helped over recent years.
01 May 2009
We are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the first round of sales of sites for new nuclear power stations.