Wind power exceeds hydropower in electricity generation
According to the annual energy statistics report that was released on Thursday, wind contributed more towards the UK's power generation than water in year 2007. This has happened for the first time in the history of the country. In year ...
by Emma Young August 3rd, 2008
Nuclear power agenda unveiled
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and the business secretary, John Hutton, are to engage in wooing international investors at a London meeting on the twelfth of June in a bid to attract investment in the development of new nuclear power ...
by Emma Young June 4th, 2008
Nuclear Power and Energy Crisis
In Britain nuclear power stations provide 19 percent of our electricity and account for 3.5 percent of our total energy use. What you may not know is that all but one of those reactors is due to close down by ...
by Tessa Clarke May 20th, 2008
Fishermen oppose move to build nuclear facility
Fishermen and Mersin Mediterranean Social Forum members are opposing the move to build a nuclear power generating facility in the Akkuyu District of Mersin. About fifty people and ten boats bearing banners and placards that boldly declared their opposition to the ...
by Emma Young April 28th, 2008
First nuclear power facility for Turkey in seven years
The head of the Turkish Electricity Trading Company has announced that the first nuclear power generation facility in Turkey will be ready for unveiling in seven years. He further added that the tendering process which begun on the twenty fourth of March this year will be concluded on the twenty
by Emma Young April 28th, 2008
Nuclear power plan still worrying the public
A survey conducted recently has revealed that the latest generation of nuclear power plants in Britain would carry greater perils, financially and environmentally than the previous ones. Hugh Richards, the author of the report says that spent fuel generated by the pressurised water reactors would produce very high levels of radiation
by Emma Young April 18th, 2008
Nuclear Power Urged By Government
A white paper published last May on nuclear power’s ability to meet targets on reducing emissions at home and abroad was given a push by John Hutton, secretary of state for business, enterprise and reform. According to Hutton, nuclear is the ...
by Emma Young February 8th, 2008
Nuclear Power Decommissioning Costs Rise
A report from the National Audit Office stated that work to decommission Wales’ only closed nuclear power station is behind schedule. The cost has also jumped 25% in just two years. The problems at Trawsfynydd, in Gwynedd, are part of a ...
by Emma Young February 8th, 2008
Parliament Reads UK Energy Bill Again
The UK energy bill was given a second reading in the country's lower house on 22 January. Business and enterprise minister John Hutton stated he hoped for a nuclear resurgence in the country. Hutton expanded at length on new energy legislation, ...
by Emma Young January 31st, 2008
Scotland Says No to UK’s Nuclear Power Policy
Scotland’s sparsely populated land has housed many of Britain’s nuclear power plants in the past, but John John Swinney, the Scottish Executive's Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, told his countrymen that Edinburgh had come to an agreement with ...
by admin January 16th, 2008
U.K. Cabinet Supports New Generation of Nuclear Plants
The U.K. Cabinet supported the option of a new generation of nuclear plants. This comes into opposition with the beliefs of environmentalists, who say the option is unsafe. ``There was a very good discussion with many interventions,'' Emily Hands, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She went on to say
by admin January 11th, 2008
