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The Interim Storage Facility is ready to go and help us empty the ponds.
The Interim Storage Facility is paving the way for intermediate level waste to be removed from one of the sites priority high hazard retrieval facilities.
The completion of the waste store was marked by a special event attended by the project teams, the ISF supply chain and representatives from Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
Sellafield Ltd’s Waste Retrievals Director John Oliver said:
We talk about moving legacy waste to a safer place; well, this is one of those safer places – a modern, fit-for-purpose storage facility which has been built using a design template already successfully proven within the NDA estate.
Along with the other stores currently under construction, the Interim Storage Facility will be a vital part of our waste retrievals mission in the future.
Duncan Thompson, NDA Sellafield Programme Director added:
The completion of the ISF project is a fantastic example of the progress Sellafield has made in developing and implementing a fit-for-purpose facility that is helping to accelerate the mission of decommissioning and reducing the hazards of the UK’s civil nuclear legacy.
Developing and implementing innovative approaches to the challenges of nuclear decommissioning and clean-up is what we do and this is a great example of success at Sellafield, delivered safely, early and well below the estimated cost.
Published 14 March 2018
The Environment Agency publish permits that they issue under the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).
This decision includes the permit and decision document for:
Mr Rob Macaire CMG has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mr Rob Macaire CMG has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran in succession to Mr Nicholas Hopton who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Macaire will take up his appointment in April 2018.
Commenting on the appointment, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:
Iran has an important role to play in the Middle East region, but it is essential that it does so in a constructive way – something I made clear during my visit to Tehran in December last year. The Iran deal, signed in 2015, was a huge diplomatic success. The product of years of patient and persistent diplomacy that extinguished the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.
In that vein, I am pleased that Rob will be applying his wealth of international experience to the leading HMG’s engagement in Tehran. We face challenges – including the ongoing cases of British dual-nationals detained in Iran – and areas for potential collaboration. I look forward to working with him across these areas.
Mr Macaire said:
I am honoured to be appointed the new British Ambassador to Iran. The UK’s continued engagement with Iran is vital to our goal of making the Middle East region a safer and more stable place. I look forward to working with the Government of Iran and with international partners to preserve the nuclear deal and deepen our bilateral relationship, through constructive engagement on human rights, trade, and seeking political solutions to the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere.
Full name: Robert Macaire CMG
Married to: Alice Macaire
Children: Two
2016 – present Language Training
2011 – 2016 BG Group plc. Director of Government/Public Affairs and Political Risk
2008 – 2011 Nairobi, British High Commissioner
2006 – 2008 FCO, Director, Consular Services
2004 – 2006 New Delhi, Political Counsellor
2002 – 2004 FCO, Head, Counter Terrorism Policy Department
1998 – 2002 Washington, First Secretary, Middle East and Counter-terrorism
1998 FCO, Head of Sierra Leone Unit, Africa Directorate
1997 –1998 FCO, Head of Southern Africa Section, Africa Directorate
1996 – 1997 FCO, Head of MEPP Section, Near East and North Africa Department
1995 – 1996 FCO, Head of Levant Section, Near East and North Africa Department
1991 – 1995 Bucharest, Second Secretary (Know How Fund)
1990 FCO, Falkland Islands Department
The Environment Agency considers that the improvement works are not likely to have significant effects on the environment.