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Soaring costs threaten Britain’s nuclear plans
Source: The Times of London
Energy policy hanging by thread after only credible company left to build nuclear reactors raises price by 40 per cent to £7 billion each
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Read more: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/utilities/article3406852.ece
The article is behind a pay-wall, that headline and first sentence are on the front page of The Time website http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/ under the Busiress section.
It's also the first item in a Reuters list of top news stories today:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/press-digest-british-business-may-idUKL5E8G6A1H20120507
PRESS DIGEST - British business - May 7
Mon May 7, 2012 1:01am BST
The Times
SOARING COSTS THREATEN TO BLOW NUCLEAR PLAN APART
Energy policy is hanging by a thread after the only credible company left to build nuclear reactors in Britain increased the price by 40 percent to 7 billion pound ($11.31 billion) each.
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PRESS DIGEST - British business - May 7
Mon May 7, 2012 1:01am BST
The Times
SOARING COSTS THREATEN TO BLOW NUCLEAR PLAN APART
Energy policy is hanging by a thread after the only credible company left to build nuclear reactors in Britain increased the price by 40 percent to 7 billion pound ($11.31 billion) each.
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Soaring costs threaten Britain’s nuclear plans (Original Post)
bananas
May 2012
OP
kristopher
(29,798 posts)1. $11.3B out the gate...
How much do you suppose the price will go up once the UK has spent the first $5B and can no longer afford to back out of the deal?
diane in sf
(3,913 posts)2. wind and efficiency are vastly cheaper.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)3. In every way.
No poisons that last for hundreds of thousands of years to store and try to keep under wraps and under control. No prohibitively expensive maintenance and upkeep. No cancers, birth defects, and poisoned earth. Not to mention money.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)4. Yes they are.
On the Horizon: Deeper Wind, Faster Solar
By Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com
April 24, 2012
New Hampshire, USA -- Offshore wind technology is striving to reach new depths while the solar industry is facing a challenge to make rooftop installation easier than ever. Both announcements this week are structured to clear some of the fundamental hurdles facing the wind and the solar industries.
Ahead of an international clean energy conference this week in London, the U.K.s Department of Energy and Climate Change said it is working with the U.S. Department of Energy on a plan to develop floating wind technology that will give turbines access to the strong, consistent resources currently out of reach of current wind farms.
On Tuesday, the DOE announced that it is making $5 million available this year toward the development of plug-and-play solar rooftop installations with the guiding principle that a system should be purchased, installed and made operational in one day....
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/on-the-horizon-deeper-wind-faster-solar?cmpid=WindNL-Thursday-May3-2012
By Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com
April 24, 2012
New Hampshire, USA -- Offshore wind technology is striving to reach new depths while the solar industry is facing a challenge to make rooftop installation easier than ever. Both announcements this week are structured to clear some of the fundamental hurdles facing the wind and the solar industries.
Ahead of an international clean energy conference this week in London, the U.K.s Department of Energy and Climate Change said it is working with the U.S. Department of Energy on a plan to develop floating wind technology that will give turbines access to the strong, consistent resources currently out of reach of current wind farms.
On Tuesday, the DOE announced that it is making $5 million available this year toward the development of plug-and-play solar rooftop installations with the guiding principle that a system should be purchased, installed and made operational in one day....
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/on-the-horizon-deeper-wind-faster-solar?cmpid=WindNL-Thursday-May3-2012
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)5. Even GE Says So
NickB79
(19,233 posts)6. And Britain is well-suited to offshore turbine development as well. nt