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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.
Good progress continues to be made on assessing designs for possible new nuclear units in the UK, but many technical issues remain open, the country’s regulators have said.
The advancement of the next generation of nuclear reactors has received a boost with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Ltd (PBMR) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) of Japan.
Every commercial nuclear power plant in the world has received a World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) peer review, marking a key milestone for the organisation.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday released a fiscal year 2011 budget request that increases by 36 billion US dollars (USD) (25.7 billion euro) the amount of federal loan guarantees to be accessed by companies planning to build new nuclear power plants.
Most of the Swiss believe it is necessary to build new nuclear reactor units to replace existing units that are taken out of service at the end of their operating lifetimes, according to the latest survey carried out on behalf of Swissnuclear, the nuclear energy section of the Swiss electricity grid companies’ organisation Swisselectric.
The US has set up a special commission to provide recommendations for developing a long-term solution to managing the nation’s used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, the Department of Energy (DOE) has said.
The British government received a good price when selling its interest in British Energy to EDF, but it is too early to say whether the sale will lead to the construction of new nuclear power plants “from the earliest possible date and with no public subsidy”, according to a report released today by the National Audit Office (NAO).
The British government will not use taxpayers’ money to subsidise the construction of new nuclear power plants, Philip Hunt, minister of state at the Department of Energy and Climate Change said yesterday.
NucNet talks to Dame Sue Ion OBE about the future of materials science and the emergence of China and India as global nuclear energy players. Dame Sue is former vice-president and fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She was BNFL’s director of technology 1992-2006.
The European uranium enrichment company, Urenco, says it plans to continue its expansion of production capacity across sites in Europe to reach a group enrichment target of 18,000 tonnes separative work units per annum by 2015.
