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In focus with Sir Bernard Ingham
STOP PRESS: THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
The time has come to take stock. Energy policy is in a total mess. Not a single one of its five pillars remains intact with the withdrawal of the German companies, RWE and EoN, from the nuclear element.
Delegates at United Nations talks in South Africa agreed a roadmap yesterday towards an agreement that for the first time would force major carbon emitters such as the US, India and China to take action to slow the pace of global climate change.
The UK should set up an agency to discuss with potential overseas partners ways of sharing experience and reducing the cost of nuclear R&D, the chairman of France’s Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) has said.
Research and development funding in the UK should be first directed towards thermal reactors rather than fast reactor systems, a parliamentary committee has been told.
The UK has “missed the boat” in terms of research and development for Generation III nuclear reactors and needs to invest in R&D for Generation IV, including fast-breeder reactors, a parliamentary committee has been told.
Europe has reached “a full agreement” on funding for the next two years of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project based at Cadarache in southern France.
Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 percent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team including researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
Critical units of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant withstood shaking from the 11 March earthquake before being flooded by the tsunami that followed, Tokyo Electric Power Company has said.
The UK government says it intends to convert “the vast majority” of the country’s civil separated plutonium into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for use in civil nuclear reactors.
A report by the University of Chicago says small modular reactors (SMRs) could compete with natural gas and have the potential to achieve “significant” reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
