Nuclear Power

Keeping the lights on - without new coal

Posted by bex — 1 August 2008 at 5:57pm - Comments

Keeping the lights on

Keeping the lights on - without new coal

"[U]nless we want to risk our security of supply and face greater cost burdens, stations such as Kingsnorth must be part of the energy mix."

 

"Currently, we have to use a mix of energy sources to power our country - fossil fuel, renewable energy and nuclear power. Together they provide us with a reliable electricity supply. And although the use of low-carbon energy sources is growing, fossil fuel will continue to generate power, not just here but around the globe."

 

Senior government and Big Energy have been working hard to propagate the idea that, to keep the lights on, we need to build new coal plants.

So, is it true?

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, energy, energy efficiency, energy gap, nuclear power, poyry, solutions

Bid for Britain's nuclear power stations goes piff paff poof

Posted by jamie — 1 August 2008 at 3:13pm - Comments

It's usually poor form to laugh at another's misfortunes, but in this case I feel a slight chortle is more than justified. EDF's bid to takeover British Energy - the semi-state owned company charged with looking after the UK's nuclear power stations - has been kicked out, throwing a spanner of cosmic proportions into our government's plans for a new atomic age. Oops, butterfingers.

Article tagged as: british energy, climate change, EDF, energy, nuclear power

Blogging the meltdown of the nuclear industry

Posted by bex — 29 July 2008 at 5:12pm - Comments

Nuclear Reaction

For three weeks, Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating has been quietly working on a new Greenpeace blog, Nuclear Reaction. Now it's ready to open its doors to the world.

The purporse of the blog, in Justin's own words, is to record and comment on "the various incompetencies, radioactive leaks, cover-ups, accidents, spin, radioactive leaks, empty promises, contamination, massive cost overruns, radioactive leaks, substandard reactor construction, and radioactive leaks that dribble and gush from the nuclear energy industry."

So it's been pretty busy. Come on in.

Article tagged as: nuclear power

Whitehall farce explodes over nuclear clean-up and clean energy commitments

Posted by jamie — 24 July 2008 at 2:55pm - Comments

Well, what do you know? Another news story has broken which demonstrates that the UK's nuclear industry is not the robust, well-managed machine our ministers would have us believe. The government has sneaked out a report assessing the working practices of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) which is managing the clean-up of existing power stations and waste. They were clearly hoping no one would notice as there's no doubt that many people have been caught with their pants anklewards.

Article tagged as: climate change, energy, NDA, nuclear power, nuclear waste, renewable energy

Big fat bribes for anyone willing to live with nuclear waste

Posted by jamie — 12 June 2008 at 3:01pm - Comments

We've known for quite some time that the government's preferred solution to that nagging problem of all the nuclear waste currently lying around the place is to dump it in a big hole in the ground. Nice. However, they've had trouble finding anywhere in the country which has been willing to live with this waste bubbling away beneath their feet but now they've come up with the perfect solution: bribery!

Article tagged as: bribery, NDA, nuclear power, nuclear waste, nuclear waste white paper, sellafield

Black Tuesday blights Brown's nuclear vision

Posted by jossc — 29 May 2008 at 11:32am - Comments

Major ongoing problems at Sellafield have been hidden from the public

Sellafield: major ongoing problems have been hidden from the public

Yesterday, Gordon Brown felt compelled to go on the record to announce that the UK needs to not only maintain but to increase its nuclear power capacity. And yet the nuclear industry is not exactly hale and hearty because, let's face it, it's been a terrible week for the poor dears.

Article tagged as: british energy, decommissioning, NDA, nuclear power, nuclear waste, sellafield, sizewell

Standards are slipping in the nuclear industry?

Posted by jamie — 22 May 2008 at 5:21pm - Comments

A projection near Prague Castle says 'Non merci' to nuclear power

A projection near Prague Castle says 'Non merci' to nuclear power © Horejsi/Greenpeace

Prague, that wonderful city admired by horror film makers and stag parties alike, is currently hosting the European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF), a gathering of those involved in shaping nuclear policy across the EU. One of the hot topics at this meeting is safety standards within the nuclear industry and a very scary proposal has been floated to lower standards in many member states.

Article tagged as: areva, ENEF, EPR, nuclear power, nuclear reactors
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