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In focus with Sir Bernard Ingham
Up to our ears in debt but value for money still has no appeal
Well, now we know how much Chancellor George Osborne is committed to value for money in energy policy. Not much. True, in his autumn statement he halved subsidies for solar panels but only because their cost has come down substantially. He also brought in £250m energy cost relief for intensive energy users who are supposed to be a prime target for reducing carbon emissions, thereby complicating energy policy still further while usefully helping to retain heavy industry in the UK.
The UK government this week unveiled ambitious plans to reduce carbon emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 with nuclear energy playing “a key role” in meeting future energy requirements.
The European Union (EU) has broken new ground in setting up a common legal framework for nuclear safety based on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) main safety standards for nuclear installations and obligations under a key global Safety Convention, the IAEA has said.
An agreement has been reached between Australia’s main medical isotopes provider, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), and Australian nuclear medicine community leaders to help combat the world nuclear medicine supply shortage by working side-by-side to secure reliable supply for Australian patients.
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) carried out 182 security inspections at the country’s nuclear power plants and certain fuel cycle facilities with spent nuclear material in 2008, according to the agency’s annual security inspection report to Congress.
The UK needs to reduce its emphasis on renewables and increase its investment in nuclear energy or risk a system that is “not fit for purpose” by 2030, according to the influential business group CBI.
The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) saw its income rise by more than a third in the financial year 2008-2009, partly because of higher sales from two of the country’s oldest nuclear power plants, the public body said today.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has signed a cooperation agreement with the Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Company, the Nuclear Power Institute of China and the China North Nuclear Fuel Corporation to assess the use of thorium fuel in Candu nuclear reactor units.
A cooperative effort is needed among regulators and industry to improve international safety standards for containers used to transport and store nuclear materials, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) commissioner Dale Klein told a conference in Brussels.
The European Nuclear Safety Regulations Group (ENSREG) has recommended the creation and implementation of national radwaste and spent fuel management programmes within the EU.
The UK needs to reduce its emphasis on renewables and increase its investment in nuclear energy or risk a system that is “not fit for purpose” by 2030, according to the influential business group CBI.
