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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 Dutch authorities yesterday gave permission to allow the restart of the Petten high-flux research reactor (HFR) in the Netherlands, the Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group (NRG) said.
Russia will supply a total of 2,000 tonnes of natural uranium pellets for India’s pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) units, under a long-term contract signed by both countries in Mumbai yesterday.
The UK’s Minister for Scotland, Jim Murphy, will underline the government’s intention to promote the expansion of nuclear energy in the UK during a keynote address at a conference in Edinburgh, on 16 February 2009.
Participants at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) workshop on the supply of Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) have drawn up a list of measures that should be taken to help ensure supplies of the key medical isotope by strengthening the “vulnerable” supply chain.
The Russian government has approved a request by the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation for Ukraine to join the project to open an international uranium enrichment centre in Angarsk, Siberia.
France’s GDF SUEZ and Iberdrola of Spain said on 4 February that they had entered into a partnership to jointly participate in the development of new nuclear power stations in the UK.
US nuclear power plants continued their decade-long trend of reliable electricity generation in 2008, eclipsing all other electricity sources with an industry-average capacity factor of more than 90 percent, according to preliminary data on the year’s operations.
All four non-socialist parties in Sweden’s coalition government today confirmed plans to overturn a national ban and allow new nuclear reactor units to be built in the country.*
