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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.
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.
State-owned Polish utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) has shortlisted the northern Polish towns of Choczewo, Gaski and Zarnowiec as sites for its first nuclear power plant, chief executive officer Tomasz Zadroga has said.
Latest figures from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan show that temperatures in the lower areas of the reactor pressure vessels of units 1 to 3 are stable at below 100 degrees Celsius.
Nuclear power can address the twin challenges of global climate change and acute growth in energy demand while also having the largest potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the lowest cost, a new report says.
Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, temporarily shut down last month for safety tests, will operate at full capacity in February 2012, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation said yesterday.
Australia’s prime minister Julia Gillard has called for the Labor Party to end its ban on uranium exports to India, saying the move would be good for the Australian economy and for jobs.
France’s nuclear safety authority ASN (l’Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire) has given the country’s nuclear power plants a clean bill of health, but recommended the protection of vital equipment be improved.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has commended Japanese efforts to clean up radiation from its crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in a report today, but urges the country to consider several additional steps.
France's Socialist Party (PS) voted yesterday to back a pre-electoral agreement with the green party, EELV, that would close EDF’s 24 oldest reactors by 2025, party leader Martine Aubry announced.
French utility GDF Suez will reassess its nuclear strategy in Belgium between now and mid-2012 after Belgian parties seeking to form a government agreed to raise a tax imposed on the nuclear energy industry.
