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PUBLIC OPINION RECOVERS: POLITICIANS REMAIN DEAF
First, the good news. Nuclear power has virtually recovered from the knock it took over Fukushima. Indeed, according to an Ipsos MORI poll between December 2 and 8 exactly half the population is now in favour of replacing existing nuclear power stations and only 20% against. That compares with a favourable 36/28% rating in June last year – three months after the Japanese disaster. Read more...
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.
The UK’s energy minister has responded to a post-Fukushima report on nuclear safety by saying he continues to see no reason why the country should not proceed with its policy that nuclear should be part of the future energy mix.
Westinghouse Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Czech company Vítkovice for the manufacture of key equipment for the proposed new Temelin reactor units 3 and 4.
The operator of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has said nuclear fuel melted through the primary containment vessel (PCV) at the facility’s number one reactor unit following the accident on 11 March 2011.
