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In focus with Sir Bernard Ingham
Up to our ears in debt but value for money still has no appeal
Well, now we know how much Chancellor George Osborne is committed to value for money in energy policy. Not much. True, in his autumn statement he halved subsidies for solar panels but only because their cost has come down substantially. He also brought in £250m energy cost relief for intensive energy users who are supposed to be a prime target for reducing carbon emissions, thereby complicating energy policy still further while usefully helping to retain heavy industry in the UK.
Horizon Nuclear Power has completed the purchase of land at Oldbury-on-Seven in the UK, the planned site for a new nuclear power station, the British joint venture has announced.
France’s failure to make a definite decision about its energy future has left it with little choice but to extend the life of its existing nuclear power plants, an independent government agency said.
Finnish nuclear power company Fennovoima has received commercial bids from Areva and Toshiba for the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear unit which is planned for construction in the Pyhäjoki municipality in northern Finland.
Comprehensive nuclear safety assessments being carried out by the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) are “generally consistent” with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety standards, says a preliminary summary report published today by the Vienna-based agency.
A visit to Russia by a delegation from the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has shown that many of the “mandatory conditions” for NEA membership have been met, Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom has said.
The Dutch government has given the green light for a new research reactor to be built at Petten in the Netherlands, replacing the existing High-Flux Reactor (HFR), which has been in operation since 1961 and is reaching the end of its economic life.
A commission appointed to find alternatives to a failed plan to store nuclear waste in the Nevada desert said yesterday that the US would have to develop a “consent-based approach” for choosing a site because leaving the decision to Congress had failed.
A wireless tracking system that can provide a real-time headcount of underground workers is to be used at the Swedish nuclear waste management company SKB International’s Aspo Hard Rock Laboratory.
Radioactive releases from Canadian nuclear power plants from 2001 to 2010 were “far below” the set limit for the release of radioactive substances from a licensed nuclear facility, the country’s regulator has said in a report published yesterday.
The quest to create nuclear fusion may have come a step closer after scientists heated solid matter to two million degrees Celsius with the world’s most powerful X-ray laser.
Delta says it remains convinced of the need for new nuclear, despite a decision announced this week to delay plans for a new plant at the at the existing Borssele site by two to three years.
