Work will begin next month on constructing the arched frame for the shelter being built above the damaged reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, a report by the country’s minister of emergency situations Viktor Baloga has said.
Japan’s response to the crisis at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant was flawed by poor communication and delays in releasing data on dangerous radiation leaks at the facility, a government-appointed investigative committee has found.
Three reactor units damaged by the earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan have reached a stable state of cold shutdown, prime minister Yoshihiko Noda said today.
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.
Spain’s Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism says it has started the process of reversing a ministerial order that called for the shutdown of the single-unit Santa Maria de Garoña nuclear plant in 2013.
