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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.
UK marine services and engineering group James Fisher has bought MB Faber, a Lancashire nuclear and aerospace engineer for 5.25 million pounds (GBP) (8.6 million US dollars, 6.1 million euro).
More than 100 fragments of spent nuclear fuel were removed from the seabed in the latest phase of work to clean up and shut down the former nuclear research site at Dounreay in Scotland.
An application for a proposed laser uranium enrichment plant in the US state of North Carolina has been accepted for formal review by nuclear regulators.
Before the promise of a nuclear energy renaissance can be fully realised a number of issues need to be resolved and it is “virtually impossible” for any one country to do so alone, the president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) has said.
A ‘pre-feasibility study’ on the proposed launch of a commercial nuclear power programme in Vietnam is set to be presented to lawmakers later this year.
Canada’s National Research Universal Reactor (NRU) is expected to remain shut down until early 2010, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) said this week.
Concerns over energy, food security, climate change and the need for improvements in cancer treatment continue to shape the world’s nuclear agenda, says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its latest annual report.
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has said it wants to encourage a rise in the nuclear share of total electricity generation in the country to around 40 percent.
Developing a comprehensive mix of US energy sources, including construction of up to 45 new reactor units, is the key to curbing CO2 emissions, meeting increased electricity demand and limiting cost increases, according to a new study.
