Nuclear Power is NOT the answer to Climate Change !
News
Nuclear ‘still a future option’ for SSE despite NuGen sale
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has not ruled out a return to nuclear power despite confirming plans to focus on other energy sources.
Press & Journal , 24 September 2011
EDF, Centrica inject £435m into nuclear consortium
Partners in Britain's first two new atomic reactors, EDF and Centrica (parent company of British Gas), have injected £435m of capital into their nuclear consortium - despite no planning permission or certainty on Government policy yet.
The Telegraph, 5 December 2010
EDF to press ahead with nuclear plans after assurances from Chris Huhne
EDF Energy will announce today that it has received sufficient reassurances from the energy and climate change secretary, Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne, to continue planning for a new generation of nuclear plants in Britain.
Iberdrola & SSE announce their intention to form a joint venture for the UK nuclear new build programme
Iberdrola, S.A. (parent company of Scottish Power) and Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE) have today 20 January 2009 announced their intention to form a joint venture to enable them to participate in the UK's nuclear new build programme.
Scottish Power Press Release, 20 January 2009
E.ON and npower form nuclear family
UK's latest nuclear consortium announces plans to invest £20bn in four new nuclear reactors capable of generating 6GW of power
BusinessGreen, 15 January 2009
Centrica in talks with French over £10bn nuclear
bid
Centrica, the parent company of British Gas and Scottish Gas,
has begun secret talks with EDF, the giant French utility, aimed at securing
a £10bn “British-led
solution” to
the future of the country's nuclear power generator, British Energy.
EDF says Britain must ditch renewables to help promote
nuclear
Industry
recognises that nuclear power and renewables in Britain are mutually exclusive
because they both need government support as well as the same national grid
infrastructure to distribute electricity. Last week Carlo de Riva, chief
executive of French state-owned nuclear company EDF, said British backing
for renewables, would undermine nuclear power.
“If you provide incentives for renewables ... that will displace the incentives built into the carbon market. In effect, carbon gets cheaper. And if carbon gets cheaper, you depress the returns for all the other low-carbon technologies. [like nuclear power].”
For an extensive news digest on nuclear power see No 2 Nuclear Power.