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In his Spring Budget UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the Government would class nuclear energy as environmentally sustainable in its green taxonomy, to give it access to the same investment incentives as renewables. "Increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net-zero obligations. So, to encourage private sector investment into our nuclear programme, today I confirm that subject to consultation nuclear power will be classed as environmentally sustainable." He said this will give nuclear power the same "investment incentives" as renewable energy and will driver further public investment. The taxonomy had been delayed by the Government at the end of 2022 arguing that another year was needed clarify and put it into law.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 17 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-chancellor-reclassifies-nuclear-as-environmentally-sustainable-10679910
The UN climate summit in November "must be the COP that consigns coal power to history" if the world is serious about achieving the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement, COP26 President Alok Sharma said last week. In response, the UK's Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) said that nuclear energy is the best low-carbon baseload replacement for coal, while US Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry highlighted the development of small modular reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/COP26-Presidents-calls-for-end-to-coal-power
Climate scientist James Hansen has warned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his government's decision not to block plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria, in the North West of England, means the country risks humiliation as the host of COP26. Meanwhile, the UK's Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) has published analysis showing that, although Britain remains dependent on fossil fuels, regions with both nuclear and wind power are already reaching the 2030 decarbonisation targets.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-urged-to-set-a-good-example-ahead-of-climate-ta
The BBC said the government taking a stake in the project to build two Generation III EPR units at Sizewell is one option being considered as it looks to “replace China’s CGN [China General Nuclear] as an investor”.
France’s EDF and CGN are 80% and 20% shareholders in the Sizewell C project. The cost of the project has been estimated at £18bn, although this has not been confirmed by either EDF or CGN.
After Sizewell C, CGN was set to build it’s a single HPR1000, or Hualong One, reactor design at Bradwell in Essex, but BBC News cited sources saying this idea “‘looks dead’, given revived security concerns and deteriorating diplomatic relations” between London and Beijing.
The HPR1000 is a China-designed 1,100-MW Generation III pressurised water reactor which incorporates elements of China’s ACP1000 and ACPR1000+ reactor designs.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 18 September 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/government-could-take-stake-in-sizewell-nuclear-project-says-report-9-4-2020
Iran will retaliate against any country that carries out cyber attacks on its nuclear sites, the head of civilian defence said on 3 July, after a fire at its Natanz enrichment facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 07 July 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsincident-damages-building-at-irans-natanz-enrichment-facility-8011793
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today officially launched the next UN climate summit, joined by David Attenborough, the English broadcaster and natural historian, and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at an event in central London. Johnson called on all nations to follow the lead the UK took last year in becoming the first country to make a legal commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-launches-COP26-with-co-hosts-Italy
Paul Stein, chief technology officer for Rolls-Royce, told the BBC today the British engineering firm has a target of 2029 for commissioning small modular reactors (SMRs) in the UK. The ambition is part of the country's aim to achieve net zero by 2050, initially using former nuclear power sites in Cumbria and Wales.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rolls-Royce-sees-SMRs-on-UK-grid-by-2029
The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK have triggered a dispute resolution mechanism over the nuclear deal with Iran - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - following the Middle Eastern country's further step away from its commitments. Josep Borrell, EU foreign affairs chief and coordinator of the JCPOA joint commission, said he had received today a letter from the three ministers for resolution through the mechanism, as set out in paragraph 36 of the agreement.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 15 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/European-leaders-trigger-dispute-mechanism-of-Iran
Following UK media reports questioning the future of UK's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the Joint European Torus (JET) in the wake of the UK's expected withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit), CCFE head Ian Chapman said on 30 November that "nothing has changed". JET is the largest tokamak in the world and the only operational fusion experiment currently capable of producing fusion energy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsconcern-over-future-of-uk-fusion-research-5689165
"Nothing has changed" regarding the future for the UK's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the Joint European Torus (JET), centre head Ian Chapman said today.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 30 November 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Post-Brexit-business-as-usual-at-JET