The UK has “missed the boat” in terms of research and development for Generation III nuclear reactors and needs to invest in R&D for Generation IV, including fast-breeder reactors, a parliamentary committee has been told.
Research and development funding in the UK should be first directed towards thermal reactors rather than fast reactor systems, a parliamentary committee has been told.
The UK should set up an agency to discuss with potential overseas partners ways of sharing experience and reducing the cost of nuclear R&D, the chairman of France’s Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) has said.
Critical units of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant withstood shaking from the 11 March earthquake before being flooded by the tsunami that followed, Tokyo Electric Power Company has said.
Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 percent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team including researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
