Group Bookmarks tagged
You are here: Diigo Home > Groups > nuke.news > Bookmarks > Group Bookmarks tagged development,edf
A series of public events is planned to discuss plans for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley, Somerset.
Local residents will be give the opportunity to see current plans and to raise any concerns they have.
British Energy and EDF are arranging events as part of proposals to involve the local community in discussions about new nuclear power plants.
Events are planned at Nether Stowey, Cannington, Bridgwater, Combwich, Burnham-on-Sea, Williton and Stogursey.
more from news.bbc.co.uk
Anyone who went off to the beach a month ago in the expectation that the future of Britain's nuclear industry had been settled will be returning to a serious disappointment. The structure of the industry is still undecided, while the government maintains the fiction that it is a question that can be resolved by the private sector alone. With the security of Britain's energy supplies at stake, this muddle and confusion is dismaying.
more from www.ft.com
The grand plan for nuclear power in the UK has come to a grinding halt with EDF's decision to abandon buying British Energy
It’s not often that the blocking of a single deal brings a whole area of national policy to a grinding halt.
Yet that is what has happened with the failed (for the moment) auction of British Energy (BE), our sole nuclear-power provider. When its sale to EDF, the French utility group, was halted on Thursday, government energy policy was derailed at the same moment.
more from business.timesonline.co.uk
ONE of the front runners in the race to build a new nuclear power station at Wylfa looks poised to complete an £12bn deal for British Energy which could cool its interest on Anglesey.
UK nuclear firm British Energy is expected to be snapped up by French power giants EDF (Electricité de France), which recently revealed it was buying up farmland around Wylfa, owned by the National Decommissioning Authority.
more from www.dailypost.co.uk
EDF, the French utility, could face a legal challenge over the technology it has decided to use in building Britain’s latest generation of power stations.
EDF announced last May that it planned to employ Areva, the French nuclear energy group, but its decision, which was made without giving rival reactor manufacturers an opportunity to bid for the contract, could be illegal under European law, according to Ros Kellaway, partner and head of EU competition law in Eversheds
more from business.timesonline.co.uk
Energy Net (5135)