EDF
Posted by jossc — 17 March 2009 at 3:54pm
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Prepare to be unsurprised. Very unsurprised. Those lovable energy giants EDF and E.ON have put their collective boots into government plans to generate 35 per cent of our electricity from renewable sources.
According to their submissions to the latest energy consultation, the figure is not only unrealistic but also damaging to alternative schemes such as nuclear plants. So damaging that, um, they may be forced to drop their plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants in the UK unless the government scales back its targets for wind power.
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Nuclear waste from the reactors likely to be built in the UK will be up to seven times more hazardous than that produced by existing reactors.
The admission was made in an 'environmental impact assessment' report by nuclear company Posiva. Posiva are responsible for managing the waste which will be produced by the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) currently being constructed in Olkiluoto, Finland.
And an independent nuclear consultant has warned that this will increase the costs of nuclear energy, as waste storage and safety expenses will rise above expected levels.
Posted by bex — 24 September 2008 at 10:44am
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Yesterday: "I want British companies and British workers to seize the opportunity and lead the world in the transformation to a low carbon economy and I believe that we can create in modern green manufacturing and service one million new jobs" - Gordon Brown.
Today: British Energy is sold to French nuclear company EDF for £12.5 billion, exporting thousands of potential UK jobs to France, dealing a hammer blow to our chances of meeting our legally binding Renewables Obligation.
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Posted by jamie — 1 August 2008 at 3:13pm
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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.
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Commenting on news that
the expected takeover of British Energy by French energy company EDF has fallen
through, Nathan Argent, head of
Greenpeace's nuclear campaign, said:
"This is a hammer blow
for Brown's deluded nuclear ambitions. If this deal had gone ahead, it would
have been a disaster for renewable energy in the UK. A
push for more nuclear power would scupper the UK
renewable energy industry, and, by doing so, cancel out the prospect of creating
hundreds of thousands of British green-collar jobs.
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The French
nuclear safety agency, ASN, has ordered
construction to be suspended on the new nuclear reactor being built in
France - the same model that
would most likely be built in the UK. (1)
Flamanville's construction
in northern France has run
into the same kinds of problems plaguing the ongoing construction of
the only other European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), Olkiluoto 3,
in Finland.
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