Shapps greenlights Sizewell C, subsidised with £679 million of public cash
D-BEIS secretary of state Grant Shapps today confirmed the government’s approval for - and £679 million underpinning of - the 3.2GW Sizewell C nuclear...
Notts ex-coal plant picked for nuke fusion trial
EDF’s former fossil-fuelled power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire is to host a pilot plant for nuclear fusion.
The government is providing £220 million...
Mini-nukes among winners of £3.3 million more taxpayer cash
Research into advanced modular nuclear reactors is set to progress with a further £3.3 million of government grants.
Latest funding for projects under D-BEIS’s Advanced...
Kwarteng approves Sizewell C on energy security grounds
Energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has overruled fears over bird preservation and water management at Sizewell C, granting permission yesterday instead for the £20 billion...
Nukes “essential for Net Zero transition”: IEA
A new report from the para-governmental body for oversight of the world’s energy has re-ignited the debate over the planet’s – and Britain’s –...
Invest in renewables to fund nuke clean-up, councils urge Whitehall
A protest group centred on local councils claims to have found a way of meeting at least part of Britain’s multi-billion public bill for...
Sizewell C decision still on hold, this time until July
Energy ministers at D-BEIS have for a second time delayed taking a final decision on the development consent order (DCO) for the Sizewell C...
Sizewell C: Kwarteng finds £100 million to lure investors
Prospects for Sizewell C, Britain’s second new nuclear mega-project, advanced today as energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng confirmed £100 million of government cash to encourage...
Nukes: French see Olkiluoto 3 feeding Finns’ grid ‘in January’; Rolls-Royce SMRs ‘fully funded’
The 12-year-delayed nuclear forerunner of Hinkley Point C is expected to be pumping power into its nation’s grid late next month, according to an...
Onshore wind supported by 80% of Brits, as renewables resisters change minds or die
Britons’ resistance to renewable energy continues to weaken even among the old, the government’s long-term tracking study of public attitudes indicates.
A combined 87% of...
New funding mechanism mooted for Big Nukes
The costs of new nuclear power stations look set to be loaded more directly on to consumers, under new, Treasury-approved rules announced by D-BEIS.
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