Program prepares U.K. students for nuclear careers

October 6, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News
NWS scientific apprentice Teddy (left) and senior lead in customer management and expert support Howard (right) flank the five Dream Placement 2025 student participants. The students are (from left) Amelia, Elijah, Cole, Joseph, and Will. (Photo: NWS)

Earlier this year, Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, hosted a group of five teenagers for a week of exposure to real-world work environments at its facilities in Calderbridge, Cumbria. The students learned about career opportunities and leadership responsibilities at the company while they engaged with senior management and performed activities with several NWS teams, including employees in the environmental, waste characterization, cybersecurity, human resources, and geological disposal facility grants departments.

Capping work begins on U.K.’s LLW disposal facility

February 27, 2025, 9:30AMRadwaste Solutions
Aggregate is delivered by rail to the U.K.’s Low-Level Waste Repository site. (Photo: NWS)

Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), which manages the disposal of the United Kingdom’s low-level radioactive waste, announced this week that a major milestone has been reached at its Low Level Waste Repository in West Cumbria, England, as work begins on the final capping of legacy disposal trenches and vaults at the site.