โLow keyโ Hinkley Point signing ceremony expected today
A signing ceremony is expected to be held to finalise the deal to build the first new UK nuclear power station in a generation.
A signing ceremony is expected to be held to finalise the deal to build the first new UK nuclear power station in a generation.
With its choice for Hinkley Point C - a ยฃ100billion boondoggle โ its enthusiastic support for expensive and environmentally harmful fracking, and its relentless attack on renewable energy, the UK governmentโs energy policy is both morally and economically bankrupt, write Peter Strachan, Professor of Energy Policy at the Robert Gordon University, and Alex Russell, Professor and Chair of the Oil Industry Finance Committee. Westminster must reconsider this folly, which will be a disaster for the Conservative party, and embrace the renewable energy transition that can lead us into a clean and economically healthy future.
Amec Foster Wheeler has won a ยฃ7million contract to build a new effluent treatment plant at the Dounreay nuclear test site in Caithness.
The first transfer of radioactive material from Dounreay to the US as part of an agreement between London and Washington took place at the weekend, a news report said.
The Governmentโs approval of the Hinkley Point nuclear project has rekindled hopes for a โgolden eraโ of Sino-British relations, with the move potentially paving the way for billions more in Chinese investment.
The Governmentโs decision to press ahead with Hinkley Point C yesterday is good news for consumers, the environment, UK industry and the economy.
Generations to come will grow to loathe Britainโs love affair with nuclear power ... an infatuation that started in the 1950s and which hangs over these islands like a curse.
The Chinese firm helping to build the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point is to submit a design for another site after the Government go-ahead for the ยฃ18 billion project.
MPs should be given a vote over the Hinkley Point nuclear power station so those who support it can be โnamed and shamedโ, Alex Salmond has said.
At an estimated cost of ยฃ30 billion to the bill-payer, the new Hinkley Point nuclear power plant has sparked accusations of being a huge white elephant.
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) has said the final approval of Hinkley Point is a welcome boost for the UK's nuclear industry.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station will go ahead following a โnew agreementโ with EDF, the Government has confirmed.
Speculation is mounting that the Government is set to give the go ahead for the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK for a generation, creating thousands of jobs.
A poll has shown support for the Hinkley Point nuclear power station is at an 'all time low', according to reports.
Fresh data has revealed an estimated 65,000 jobs in the UK are supported by the nuclear industry.
A South Korean electric power utility is said to be close to investing in a $13billion project in the UK which could see construction of a new nuclear power plant near Sellafield.
North Korea is capable of detonating another nuclear device at any time at the countryโs main test site, South Korea has said, three days after Pyongyang carried out its fifth atomic bomb explosion.
Iran has begun building its second nuclear power plant with Russian help, the first such project since last yearโs landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran has begun building its second nuclear power plant with Russian help, the first such project since last yearโs landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
A European monitoring agency has reported a 5.0 magnitude quake near North Koreaโs north-eastern nuclear test site.
Sellafield nuclear site is not a danger to the public, the Government has insisted after a whistleblower warned of a string of safety concerns.
Theresa May has defended the delay on whether to give the go-ahead to Hinkley Point despite the diplomatic difficulties it will cause during her visit to China.
French President Francois Hollandeโs government is concerned that discussions on the sidelines of the Group of 20 talks in China will sound the death knell for the Hinkley Point nuclear power project in the U.K., according to people involved in the talks.
Roads around Wick Airport will be regularly shut over the next 18 months so nuclear waste can be flown to the United States.
The long-running saga over a planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point has taken a fresh twist after French union officials started legal action against a decision by energy giant EDF to go ahead with the project.