Sense about Sizewell… good news at last?
The BBC reported this weekend that the long awaited Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk is set to get …
The BBC reported this weekend that the long awaited Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk is set to get …
Nuclear power’s full life cycle carbon emissions are considerably lower than those of solar.
This live map reveals the carbon intensiveness of electricity use by country.
As the second largest source of clean energy, nuclear should be represented accordingly during the upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow.
In this critical decade we need nuclear products that are cost competitive, easier to buy, easier to deliver, present lower investor risk, for broad range of market applications.
“If nuclear is excluded from sustainable finance, it will result in both new build and life extensions for existing fleet being more difficult to finance, making our climate challenge harder, more expensive, and more likely to fail.”
Africa is hungry for energy, and nuclear power could be part of the answer for an increasing number of countries. A third of the almost 30 countries currently considering nuclear power are in Africa.
The UK Government should consider investing up to GBP1 billion (USD1.3 billion) between 2021 and 2025 to boost the progress of innovation in the nuclear energy sector.
Open Letter: “We believe that the urgency of the climate crisis is reason enough to abandon the nuclear phase-out in Belgium and Germany.”