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Energy Review update 11

Publication Date: 
2 Jul 2007
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In this issue:

1. Energy White Paper - a millstone around Gordon Brown's neck
2. The Future of Nuclear Power
3. New reactors for Hinkley, Sizewell, Oxfordshire and Brighton?
4. Nuclear nonsense
5. Bunkum and balderdash - but does it matter?
6. Scottish debate rumbles on
7. Planning for a nuclear future? Government speaks the ‘opposite of the truth'
8. Nuclear accidents - near misses and safety failures continue
9. Ban the bulb
10. IPCC says "safety, weapons proliferation and waste remain as constraints" to nuclear expansion.
11. Volunteering to host a nuclear waste dump
12. Microgeneration grants slashed
13. Eco-houses
14. THORP - virtual reprocessing

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Energy Review update 10

Publication Date: 
23 May 2007
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In this issue:

1. Nuclear plants massively over budget and late
2. New nukes to be ‘fast tracked’
3. Dounreay contamination – “one of the biggest clean-up challenges in the world”
4. Hinkley and Hunterston may live longer
5. Sellafield fined millions for safety breach - reprocessing still suspended
6. Sellafield contractors pull out
7. Nuclear waste – a partnership approach?
8. Uranium supplies
9. Whitehall moves - Energy & DTI restructure on the cards
10. Body parts scandal
11. Chernobyl’s 21st anniversary
12. Free energy audits

 

 

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Energy Review update 9

Publication Date: 
21 May 2007
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In this issue:

1. Greenpeace High Court victory exposes ‘seriously flawed’ nuclear consultation
2. Nuclear reactor sites liable to flooding
3. Nuclear utilities carry on regardless
4. Scottish political consensus against nuclear and for decentralised energy
5. Finnish reactor over budget and behind schedule
6. Energy White Paper set for 23rd May launch
7. British Energy’s cracked reactor bits
8. Green energy blueprint
9. Still no waste solution
10. Nuclear Tsar appointed - negotiations undermine consultation

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Energy Review update 8

Publication Date: 
17 Jul 2006
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In this issue:

1. The jury still out on whether nukes will actually be built
2. Nuclear Reactions – Blair’s lack of imagination
3. Review has been a ‘sham’
4. MPs want full assessment, rather than hasty review
5. Carbon contracts
6. Government failing to meet renewable targets
7. Planning changes to drive nukes
8. Tories thirst for green energy revolution
9. New nukes will need waste sorted
10. Nuclear power cracks up
11. Cracks in Scottish policy?
12. Will there be enough uranium?
13. World leaders prolifer-8
14. Pre-licensing

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Energy Review update 7

Publication Date: 
30 Jun 2006
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1. Britain’s new nuclear age?
2. Lib Dems say nuclear is too expensive
3. Environment Agency attacks Blair
4. Sustainable Energy: Tories to outflank Blair?
5. When does a carbon price become a hidden subsidy
6. EDM 2412: nuclear waste trains
7. Scotland leads dash for renewables
8. Terrorism fears over new reactors
9. Radioactive waste report not a ‘green light’
10. Electricity is not the same as energy.
11. Nuclear decommissioning – Caithness-style
12. Uranium – is there enough?
13. Micropower and the law

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Energy Review update 6

Publication Date: 
16 Jun 2006
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In this issue:

1. Tories say nuclear is too conservative
2. Subsidy or no subsidy – that is the question
3. DE takes nearly a quarter of energy market
4. Fast track to undemocratic decision-making
5. Deep dump contaminates the future
6. Nuclear sleaze
7. Governments expects local authorities to put in place pro-renewables
planning policies
8. Competition threat to safety
9. Scottish elections go nuclear
10. EdF has nothing to celebrate as Champagne is contaminated
11. Sellafield plutonium fuel plant – when in a hole stop digging
12. Accidents will happen – 30 per year involving nuclear waste
13. High-level waste shipments from Sellafield to Japan to start
14. News shorts

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Energy Review update 5

Publication Date: 
22 May 2006
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In this issue:

1. Blair’s credibility questioned as he pre-empts review
2. White Paper confusion
3. Wicks says that nuclear will be left to the market
4. Get your facts right, David!
5. Backbenchers revolt
6. Does Gordon really want nukes or is he pretending?
7. Nuclear decision will destroy attempts to build sustainable energy system
8. Nuclear power is a proven failure
9. Welsh showdown.
10. Optimism gone mad on nuclear waste
11. Too many terror suspects; new reactors vulnerable
12. Energy gap, what energy gap? – WWF report
13. Scottish confusion and Executive indecision

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Energy Review update 4

Publication Date: 
8 May 2006
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In this issue:

1. CoRWM says deep dump will take decades – meantime waste must be in
robust stores
2. CoRWM and the Scottish Parliamentary Elections
3. Energy Review Consultation or Nuclear Spin
4. NII risks second failure at THORP plant– BNG to be prosecuted
5. Sellafield plutonium and uranium fuel Plant performs even worse than
expected
6. Tories may drop support for nuclear
7. Ken says the answer is to decentralise
8. Keep Wales Nuclear Free
9. Nuclear power undermines sustainable energy
10. New European Reactors?
11. What if Chernobyl happened here?

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Energy Review update 3

Publication Date: 
24 Apr 2006
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In this issue:

1. Energy Review public consultation closes
2. Scientists say ‘no thanks’ to new reactors
3. NII risks second failure at THORP plant – BNG prosecution looming
4. Chernobyl legacy – more cancer deaths than nuclear agency claims
5. Former ministers call for IAEA reform
6. Risk of flooding of nuclear site dampens new build plans?
7. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management nears the end of the beginning – hunt for a dump site begins!
8. Scotland holds the line
9. Finland – not an example for the UK to follow
10. Environmental Audit Committee – sheds light on sustainable energy future
11. British Energy waste row
12. Pre-licensing of new reactor designs

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Energy Review update 2

Publication Date: 
3 Apr 2006
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In this issue:

1. BE waste subsidy rises by more than NHS deficit total
2. Nuclear train terror threat
3. New research shows a bright energy future is possible
4. Nuclear clean-up firm to be privatised as waste costs climb to £160bn
5. Ken rejects nuclear London
6. Energy review becomes more crucial as climate policy review fails
7. Boost for microgeneration
8. Nuclear industry seeks changes to licensing – with no public input
9. Carbon dioxide emissions highest every since Labour came to power
10. Chernobyl legacy
11. Poor outlook for Sellafield plutonium and uranium fuel plant
12. THORP – to re-start or not re-start that is the question
13. Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change
14. Nuclear waste dump filling up
15. New reactors at Sellafield?