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The government is recruiting a senior new official to spearhead plans for revamping the financing framework for new nuclear projects.
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The government should kick-start the small nuclear sector by offering it revenue support, via mechanisms like the contracts for difference (CfD), a team of advisers has recommended.
Two of the country’s biggest unions have urged the government to take a stake in the Moorside nuclear power plant as its backer NuGen has announced that it is reviewing the troubled project.
MPs have backed government moves to allow nuclear waste disposal sites in national parks and other protected landscapes.
Renewables provided nearly 30 per cent of the electricity generated in the UK in 2017, official figures have revealed, as output jumped by a fifth due to high winds and new capacity.
EDF Energy has insisted that the construction of its Hinkley Point C nuclear project remains "on track" after fresh delays to the French plant that is using the same pioneering nuclear reactor.
It’s once again the time of year when National Grid gazes deep into its crystal
The Austrian government sought to overturn the decision on the basis the promotion of nuclear power does not constitute a common interest of member states, and the reactor technology being used at the Somerset plant is not new.
Richard Harrington, junior business and industry minister, was grilled by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee yesterday (10 July) on whether the government’s new draft nuclear waste disposal guidance should permit such facilities in national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty.
In its latest quarterly update on the UK’s steps to exit Euratom, the EU-linked nuclear safeguarding regime, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) says 13 safeguards officers are being trained by the Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR) with another due to join the organisation shortly.
The government should agree support for only one more new nuclear power station before 2025, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has advised.
The European Pressurised Reactor was designed by EDF’s subsidiary Framatome. Two of the reactors will be installed at Hinkley Point C in Somerset and EDF plans to deploy two more at its proposed Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk.
The nuclear industry has committed to a 30 per cent cut in the cost of building new plants by 2030 under the sector deal which the government unveiled today (28 June).
Energy Systems Catapult's study examined the “effective carbon price” which has emerged in different parts of the economy due to a complex web of taxes, subsidies, contracts and regulations.
The proposed Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant in North Wales has been granted environmental approval by
The European Parliament and EU member states have agreed a new target of one-third of
The Nuclear Industry Association chief executive, Tom Greatrex said the Brexit transition period would be “crucial” to the sector, which depended in turn on whether the UK is able to strike a trade deal with the EU.
The government has announced that key building blocks of the UK’s post-Brexit nuclear safeguarding regime have been assembled.
Since then, the government steered clear of bankrolling nuclear power. This has reflected the Treasury’s
Greg Clark has signalled a shift in the government’s long-standing block on direct investment in nuclear energy as he announced the next phase of talks on Horizon’s Wylfa Newydd plant.