Global energy consumption grew strongly by 5.6% in 2010 to 12bn tonnes of oil equivalent (toe). It was the biggest annual growth since 1973…
Read more ›UK Nuclear News »
UK Launches Call For Evidence In New Bid For National Repository
May 12, 2013 at 12:24 pmThe UK government today renewed its “firm commitment” to establishing a national geological disposal facility for higher-activity radioactive waste and called for suggestions on how to make progress choosing a site.
Ed Davey, secretary of state for energy and climate change, announced the launch of a “call for evidence” on the site selection process.
The move follows a setback earlier this year when a local authority...
-
ONR Lists ‘Priority Objectives’ For UK In First Annual Plan
Priority objectives in UK nuclear regulation include reducing hazards at Sellafield and making “lasting improvements” in the country’s...
May 8, 2013 at 12:22 pm -
Boost For Fusion As UK Joins EUR 1.6 Billion International Project
The UK has joined a new 1.6 billion euros (2 billion US dollars) international project whose aims include the development of nuclear fusion...
May 3, 2013 at 12:22 pm -
Energy Security Will Be A Challenge Without Nuclear, Says UK Report
Continuing to deliver energy security in the UK at the lowest possible cost will be “particularly challenging” over the next five to...
April 30, 2013 at 1:06 pm
World Nuclear News »
Interview: Wano Plans For A Post-Fukushima Future
May 12, 2013 at 12:23 pmThe World Association of Nuclear Operators (Wano) will begin its biennial general meeting in Russia this weekend with recommendations put forward by its own Post-Fukushima Commission at the top of the agenda.
In an interview with NucNet, Wano managing director Ken Ellis said the commission had taken “a very introspective” look at Wano in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident and had produced five recommendations...
-
JAIF Chairman Calls For Early Decision On Reactor Restarts
Japan still needs nuclear energy as a power source and an “appropriate political judgment” must be made as soon as possible on the...
May 3, 2013 at 1:07 pm -
JAIF Chairman Calls For Early Decision On Reactor Restarts
Japan still needs nuclear energy as a power source and an “appropriate political judgment” must be made as soon as possible on the...
May 1, 2013 at 12:21 pm -
New Safety Rules Have ‘Major Implications’ For Nuclear In China
New safety requirements for the nuclear industry in China will have “major implications” with capital costs for each nuclear power...
April 26, 2013 at 2:48 pm
SONE Publications
BENE – Better Environment with Nuclear Energy
Civic-minded people interested in energy use and the impact it has for our economy and environment. We present the facts about nuclear energy.
Read more ›The Nuclear Power Situation 2012
Nuclear power is the only form of electricity generation that meets all the Government’s objectives: security of low carbon supply at affordable cost. Without it, there is a risk sooner or later of a shortage of electricity supply that would have disastrous consequences for the economy.
Read more ›
Power Cuts in the Making
A modern economy – indeed, a civilised society – depends on adequate supplies of energy and especially electricity when they are needed. It cannot function without them. And for the last 70 years or so Britain has had the good fortune to have had 99% reliability in its power supplies.
Read more ›The Case for Nuclear Power
1 – Nuclear power is safe Not a single death reported from a nuclear accident in the UK in more than 50 years’ operation. The safety system worked at Three Mile Island in the USA and the community was not affected. The Chernobyl disaster caused the deaths of some 56 people but its reactor had already been widely criticised in [...]
Read more ›SONE – In Focus
We face an uncertain, twitchy, disturbed spring
One word sums up this late Spring: uncertainty. We have no more idea when it will consistently warm up than we have whether a new nuclear power station will be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
The Government has appointed a Treasury Minister, Lord Deighton – the man who delivered the London Olympics – to try to bring the interminable negotiations on the price of new reactors between EdF and the Government to a conclusion. EdF plays ever harder to get, saying it is prepared for the talks to fail, while Hitachi lets it be known it feels less driven to realise the Horizon project it bought for £700m, with power stations at Wylfa and Oldbury, because the Japanese Government is looking favourably again on nuclear development.