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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’s regulator, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), has given its permission for the restart of unit 1 at the Oldbury Magnox nuclear power plant in Gloucestershire.
Madam, – When I read Minister Eamon Ryan’s review of James Lovelock’s latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia,I was both surprised and delighted by his praise of Lovelock’s work (Book Reviews, March 7th). For example, he says Lovelock “is the equivalent of a modern day Churchill warning of climate wars that are ahead of us”.
The new administration in the US has been warned that the country risks closing the door on nuclear if the planned Yucca Mountain repository programme in Nevada is set aside without a practical solution for managing spent fuel being in place.
The UK government is committed to making the country “the best place in the world” for the production of civil nuclear technology, a senior minister said tonight.
The engineering group Siemens has agreed to create a joint venture with Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear company, in an effort to capitalise on resurgent global demand for nuclear energy.
Diligence and vigilance must continue in preparation for the construction of new nuclear power plants worldwide, according to a new publication by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Work still needs to be done to strengthen nuclear safety and security worldwide, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Mohamed ElBaradei said at the opening of the agency’s board of governors meeting in Vienna, Austria yesterday.
Diligence and vigilance must continue in preparation for the construction of new nuclear power plants worldwide, according to a new publication by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Senior executives from some of the world’s biggest nuclear utilities were in Paris this week for a meeting with leaders of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO).
RWE Npower has secured options to buy land at two sites for possible nuclear power generation on the Cumbrian coast in north-west England. The company has also received a grid connection offer for one of the sites.
