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…
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EC Unfairly Discredits Nuclear Energy In Hinkley Analysis, Says Foratom
April 8, 2014 at 8:31 amThe European Commission “unfairly discredits nuclear energy” and “fails to make an objective comparison” when it addresses the potential environmental impact of the UK’s proposed investment contract for the construction of two EPR reactors at the Hinkley Point C nuclear station in England, a European industry group has said.
Foratom, the Brussels-based nuclear energy industry association, says in a position paper it...
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EDF Denies Media Reports It ‘Played Down Flood Risk’ At Dungeness B
EDF Energy made a “conservative decision” to take both reactors at the Dungeness B nuclear power station in southern England offline...
March 19, 2014 at 5:07 pm -
EDF Energy Refutes Hinkley Point ‘Return On Investment’ Claims
EDF Energy has responded to a report by a UK think-tank by saying assumptions about financing and potential equity returns for investors...
March 18, 2014 at 5:07 pm -
Contaminated Equipment Removed From Sellafield Storage Pond
Workers at Sellafield in the UK have removed 100 tonnes of contaminated, redundant equipment from the oldest fuel storage pond at the site. The...
March 7, 2014 at 5:04 pm
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China ‘Sets 10-Year Deadline’ For Design Of Thorium Reactor
March 20, 2014 at 5:08 pmThe deadline to develop a new design of nuclear reactor using thorium for fuel has been brought forward by 15 years as China’s central government tries to reduce the nation’s reliance on smog-producing coal-fired power stations, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported today.
The newspaper said a team of scientists in Shanghai had originally been given 25 years to try to develop the world’s first nuclear plant...
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Returns On Hinkley Point C Could Be Much Higher Than Usual, Says Report
Returns for French utility EDF and other investors in the UK’s first new nuclear plant in two decades, supported by the government, could...
March 18, 2014 at 5:06 pm -
Safety Has Improved Since Fukushima, Says US Government Report
The Fukushima-Daiichi accident led to many nuclear regulatory bodies taking steps to strengthen nuclear safety and provide additional resources...
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Three Years On, First Evacuees Are Ready To Return To Fukushima Homes
Residents of the town of Tamura who were evacuated following the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident are to be allowed to move back into...
March 10, 2014 at 5:01 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.
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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 [...]
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Ukraine strengthens the case for nuclear power
Nothing perhaps over this month has more underlined the need for nuclear power in the UK than the plight of the Ukraine. In truth the West has cut a sorry figure responding to Russia’s annexation of the Crimea.
This is because it is weak, wet and impoverished. The USA has a public debt of $16trillion (thousand billion). The UK’s public indebtedness is around £1.3trillion. Germany, like the UK and the rest of Europe, is steadily blunting its competitive edge with its ridiculous energy policy. France is as arthritic as Britain was in 1979. Southern Europe is in a mess because of the euro straightjacket. And roughly a third of Europe’s gas comes from Russia, much of it through the Ukraine.