Electricity Generation: Nuclear Power
Professor Gordon Mackerron, SPRU, University of Sussex Nuclear investment within the UK is becoming credible again because: the political fall-out from Chernobyl has receded; price volatility for oil and gas has increased; there is international investment interest in nuclear; climate change has become a bigger driver; and nuclear offers a route to bulk baseload power. The 2007 EWP sees nuclear as both a low-carbon option and a way to improve security of supply, although there is considerable uncertainty over what the economics might be. The EWP sets out a range of facilitative actions to enable the development of new nuclear power (design, planning, back end costs, justification process), but these are yet to be tested.
Categories: Conference Presentations, Electricity and nuclear, Energy and environment, Energy policy, Energy security
Tags: 2007 conference, Climate change, Emission reductions, Energy White Paper, Energy White Paper:an academic critique, Gordon Mackerron, Infrastructure, Nuclear, Reactors, Safety, Technology, UK
Electricity Generation Nuclear Power 2007.pdf 189.34 KBSep
2007