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Net-zero needs nuclear, UK minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change Greg Hands told the country's industry at the Nuclear Industry Association's Nuclear2021 conference in London last week in a strong message of support. The following is the text of his speech.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-UK-is-on-a-mission-for-fission

The UK, as host of the next round of UN climate talks, must take the opportunity to show how nuclear energy is essential to decarbonisation, Tim Stone, chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, said at a Westminster Energy Forum conference last week. "In fact, I would go as far as to say: No nuclear? No net zero."

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 19 February 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Finance-need-not-be-harder-than-physics,-says-NIA

Nuclear schedules have been hit, but sector is less volatile Only four new plants started construction in 2019, including Unit 2 at Hinkley Point in the UK.Photo courtesy EDF Energy. Investment in global energy will fall by $400bn this year, the biggest slump in the industry’s history, as the Covid-19 pandemic fuels a collapse in energy demand.

The International Energy Agency said in a report the unprecedented investment slump follows the most severe plunge in energy demand since the second world war.

The IEA said the decline in investment is “staggering in both its scale and swiftness” and will impact every major sector, from fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal to renewable sources including wind and solar power.

The IEA said the decline in investment in areas such as clean energy technology could undermine the transition to renewable, sustainable sources of energy.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Thursday, 28 May 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/investment-in-global-energy-generation-to-fall-by-usd400-billion-5-3-2020


NDA Archives Ltd, a subsidiary of the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has selected Crimson as its preferred bidder to set up and manage a £20 million UK nuclear archive at Wick in Scotland.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscrimson-chosen-to-manage-uk-nuclear-archive-4606994

It is now 75 years since the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and colleagues in Berlin. It is also 60 years after US president Dwight Eisenhower's UN address later known as the 'Atoms for Peace' speech, which essentially started the international nuclear supply industry.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-power-and-the-civil-military-link-4171667