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The Joint European Torus (JET) at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) Culham facility has performed its final experiments, marking the end of 40 years of groundbreaking experiments. JET delivered pulse number 105,842 on 18 December over four decades after it delivered its first pulse on 25 June 1983. UKAEA CEO, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, who was present for the final plasma experiment, said: “This is the final milestone in JET’s 40-year history. Those decades of research using JET by dedicated teams of scientists and engineers have played a critical role in accelerating the development of fusion energy.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjet-to-be-repurposed-after-delivering-final-plasma-11405916
The UK and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) have signed a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (NCA). This is separate from the wider UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement that was also announced on 24 December and which has since been approved by ambassadors from the 27 EU Member States, paving the way for it to take effect on 1 January. UK lawmakers will tomorrow return to the House of Commons, the lower chamber of parliament, to vote on the so-called post-Brexit trade deal.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 30 December 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-and-Euratom-sign-Nuclear-Cooperation-Agreement
The UK has opened for consultation its assessment of a new financing model aimed at reducing the cost of new nuclear power plant projects by having consumers pay upfront through their energy bills. A solution is needed urgently because nuclear energy is seen as a vital part of the government's commitment to cutting the country's carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Seven of the UK’s eight existing nuclear plants are set to be retired by 2030.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 23 July 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-considers-Regulated-Asset-Base-model-to-finance
The UK has opened for consultation its assessment of a new financing model aimed at reducing the cost of new nuclear power plant projects by having consumers pay upfront through their energy bills. A solution is needed urgently because nuclear energy is seen as a vital part of the government's commitment to cutting the country's carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Seven of the UK’s eight existing nuclear plants are set to be retired by 2030.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 23 July 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-considers-Regulated-Asset-Base-model-to-finance
Horizon Nuclear Power today outlined the procedure it will follow now that its new-build projects have been suspended. The UK subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi said it had made substantial progress with its plans to provide at least 5.4 GWe of new capacity across two sites - Wylfa Newydd, in north Wales, and Oldbury-on-Severn, in southwest England - by deploying Hitachi-GE UK advanced boiling reactors (UK ABWRs).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 18 January 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-next-steps-for-Horizon
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has launched a consultation until 14 September on draft regulations that aim to enable a domestic nuclear safeguards regime following the UK's withdrawal from the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) as part of its departure from the European Union.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 12 July 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-s-post-Brexit-nuclear-plans-face-scrutiny
The UK upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, on 20 March voted by 265 to 194 to insist the UK should not withdraw from the European nuclear agreement, Euratom, until a replacement deal is in place. They also supported a plan which would require the UK to report to Parliament regularly on its future arrangements with Euratom. The government, which does not have a majority in the upper house, was defeated by 50 votes on this issue after cross-benchers joined forces with Labour and Liberal Democratic peers to insist on specific assurances over research and development collaboration and the movement of qualifying nuclear material. However, MPs are expected to try and reverse these changes to the Nuclear Safeguards Bill when it returns to the House of Commons (lower house).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 22 March 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-government-defeated-in-house-of-lords-on-plans-to-leave-euratom-6091972
The UK House of Lords EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee said in a report, “Brexit: energy security, looking at implications for energy supply, consumer costs and decarbonisation”, published on 29 January that the nuclear power industry presents "particular challenges" in the context of Brexit.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 02 February 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-nuclear-power-industry-faces-brexit-challenges-6043932
The UK intends to leave the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), according to explanatory notes to a bill the government published yesterday authorising Brexit. The notes state the bill empowers the prime minister to leave both the European Union and Euratom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 27 January 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-nuclear-industry-faces-prospect-of-Euratom-exit
The UK's vote to leave the European Union (EU) will not affect Electricite de France's strategy, which includes the planned construction of the GBP18bn ($25bn) Hinkley Point NPP. "We think that this vote has no impact on our strategy," EDF CEO Jean-Bernard Levy told reporters in Paris. "The strategy for our British subsidiary is unchanged."
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 27 June 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsthe-uncertainties-of-brexit-4933924