A new threat to nuclear safety may arise at the Zaporozhye NPP – Energoatom
In the near future, the six-year period allowed by the manufacturer for nuclear fuel to remain in all six reactors of the plant will expire. Zaporozhye NPP…
No new small nuclear reactors will be built in Scotland, say SNP ministers
None of the new wave of small nuclear reactors that are part of the UK’s new strategy for increasing energy security will be built in Scotland, SNP…
Anglesey backed as location for first in new wave of nuclear power plants
Interest in the possibility of turning Wylfa into a site for new nuclear power stations since its current plant was decommissioned has existed for years. But such…
Government in talks to build ‘hundreds’ of mini-nuclear reactors across UK
A US energy developer linked to Elon Musk is in talks with the Government to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across the UK. Last Energy…
Hinkley Point C faces more delays amid Ukraine crisis
That could imply about six large stations similar to Hinkley will be needed by 2050. In a sign of its commitment to the technology, the Government is…
Boris Johnson prepares planning overhaul to speed up nuclear power plants
Boris Johnson is readying an overhaul of planning laws to speed up the building of nuclear power stations as Europe fights to wean itself off Russian gas. At a meeting…
It is time to reboot Britain’s nuclear programme
Among the many mistakes made by governments down the years to secure the UK’s energy supplies, the greatest has concerned nuclear power. The costs involved, and campaigning…
The West is putting itself at the mercy of hostile nuclear powers
If you happened to catch the moment when Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya described the bombing of civilian targets in Ukraine as fiction invented by…
The cloud hanging over Christopher Nolan’s explosive Oppenheimer biopic
“I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” That line, from the epic Hindu poem Bhagavad Gita, was what came to J Robert Oppenheimer’s mind as he watched…
Vladimir Putin is using the nuclear card to threaten Nato – but it must not back down
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, rightly described Russia’s attack on the plant as an act of “nuclear terrorism”. The attack caused a fire to break out, which…
Putin forces Germany to rethink nuclear power shutdown
Annalena Baerbock has been an anti-nuclear campaigner since childhood, when her family joined street protests against the deployment of atomic weapons and power plants in Germany. It…
Britain needs a nuclear renaissance to end our decadent dependence on Russian resources
There are few things we Brits enjoy so much as feeling morally superior to the Germans and it should be acknowledged at once that they have made…
How Britain gave China’s nuclear power grab its stamp of approval
“There are strategic political advantages for China to further roll out nuclear energy to developing nations,” says Dr Paul Dorfman, associate fellow at the University of Sussex….
No 10 urgently needs a coherent energy policy
When the then Labour leader Ed Miliband proposed intervening in the energy market in order to keep customer bills down, the Conservatives decried his measure as socialism….
How Chinese spy Christine Lee ingratiated herself with UK business
Dutifully, her firm also trumpeted its support for Chinese president Xi Jinping’s “Belt and Road” initiative, which has been criticised as an attempt to lure a string…
Nuclear power is the solution to our energy problems
In a world seeking to emit less CO2 while retaining the means to provide sufficient energy for a population of billions, there has always been one answer:…
Germany pulls the plug on half its nuclear power plants
Germany will turn off three of its remaining six nuclear power stations on Friday as part of its switch to renewable energy. Berlin decided to speed up…
Letters: It’s time for a more realistic conversation about Britain’s energy needs
A boost for boosters SIR – The impression given in the media is of massive queues to get Covid booster jabs. Here in Trafford the vaccination…