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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 European nuclear energy industry has welcomed the Italian Senate’s approval yesterday of a package of legislation that gives the green light for a return to the use of nuclear energy in the country.
Italy’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, today approved a package of legislation that gives the green light for a return to the use of nuclear energy in the country.
Areva’s European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR) design has been certified by European utilities as compliant with European Utility Requirements, or EUR, Areva said yesterday.
Russia has approved a new pricing formula between Techsnabexport (Tenex) and the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) for the supply of low-enriched uranium (LEU) for use as fuel in commercial US reactor units.
The UK government has allocated 20 million pounds (GBP) (32 million US dollars, 23 million euro) to set up a nuclear centre of excellence to encourage access to civil nuclear energy around the world and help develop a “proliferation resistant” nuclear fuel cycle.
Nuclear power will be part of a package of low-carbon technologies needed to provide a major share of the world’s energy needs and limit the rise in global average temperature, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today.
A proposal to site a repository for low- and intermediate level radioactive waste (LILW) in Slovenia’s Krsko municipality has taken a key step forward.
France’s nuclear safety authority has said there are no generic issues that would prevent the country’s 900-megawatt (MW) design pressurised water reactor (PWR) units operating up to 40 years.
The head of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has said his goals include further development of the regulatory structure in the area of materials security and a more formal oversight tool for radioactive materials licensees and facilities.
The leaders of Britain and France said today they would work together to set “far-sighted” goals for tackling climate change, including strategic investments in technologies such as nuclear power.
