BNFL Privatisation
Defence and support service firm VT Group has agreed to buy nuclear services specialists British Nuclear Group Project Services from a subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels for up to £75m.
London Share Cast 18th Dec 2007 more >>
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Scotland
Letter from Steuart Campbell: Professor Geoffrey Boulton (your report, 12 December) appears to believe, like the SNP, that Scotland can ultimately obtain all its electricity from renewable sources. Surely he knows this is impossible: generating more than 20 per cent of our electricity from such erratic sources would destabilise the grid.
Scotsman 18th Dec 2007 more >>
Iran
RUSSIA has delivered the first shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran’s Bushehr atomic power station, a step western powers worried by Tehran’s nuclear ambitions had urged Moscow not to take. Anticipating a diplomatic storm, Russia said yesterday that Tehran had given assurances that the fuel sent to Bushehr would not be used for other purposes, and it urged Tehran to drop its uranium enrichment programme.
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George W. Bush, US president, last night backed Russia’s decision to supply Iran with its first consignment of nuclear fuel for a civilian power
reactor, arguing that the move meant the Iranians no longer needed to enrich uranium themselves.
FT 18th Dec 2007 more >>
Facts about Bushehr.
Reuters 18th Dec 2007 more >>
New nukes
Greenpeace has threatened the Government with legal action if it decides to build new nuclear power stations, claiming the public consultation conducted by research firm Opinion Leader was “flawed” and “misleading”.
Research 18th Dec 2007 more >>
Britain’s gas and electricity supplies could be at the mercy of unstable governments or politically motivated investors unless the UK achieves energy independence, John Hutton, the Business and Enterprise Secretary, has warned. In a major speech yesterday, Mr Hutton laid bare why he thinks Britain must overhaul its energy industry to ensure security of future needs. The speech comes just weeks before the Government is due to announce whether to give the go-ahead for a programme to build new nuclear power stations.
Telegraph 18th Dec 2007 more >>
US
Congressional Democrats are forcing the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to get by on its lowest annual budget in years, likely causing yet more delays in opening the first national repository for radioactive waste.
AP 18th Dec 2007 more >>
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