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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 head of France’s nuclear safety authority has said he finds it “hard to believe” that there could eventually be a “standardised” reactor design available worldwide.
There is an urgent need for “global and systematic” cooperation in the nuclear industry in order to sustain the confidence of global markets in the nuclear renaissance, the president and chief executive officer of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has said.
The UK government’s new energy adviser said the UK could face blackouts by 2016 because the build rate of new energy sources – including nuclear – is not fast enough.*
The head of South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company said today that the project to build a demonstration plant has been “slowed down by the world economic crisis” and he would not speculate on a revised timeline.
The EU is “well-positioned” to become an energy technology leader thanks to proven experience with nuclear energy, a large share of renewables and the start of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, according to a new publication.
Modern communications tools such as social networking websites are an ideal way of promoting the benefits of nuclear energy, th= e head of Westinghouse Electric told a conference in London today.
Regulators, vendors and utilities worldwide have a responsibility to help and advise countries planning to launch commercial nuclear programmes, a former chief US nuclear regulator said today.
Conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication capacities appear to be sufficient to cope with demand up to 2020, but new investment will be needed to meet demand under upper and reference scenarios in the longer term, according to the latest nuclear market report from the World Nuclear Association (WNA).
Westinghouse Electric Company is in advanced discussions with the UKs Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) about the possibility of a new organisational arrangement at the Springfields nuclear fuel manufacturing site in north England.
Sweden-based Vattenfall aims to see the eventual replacement of the country’s existing reactor units with new nuclear plants, the Global 2009* nuclear conference in Paris was told yesterday.
