greenfuelconversion.com » Nuclear Power http://www.greenfuelconversion.com Helping the environment with 'green fuel' Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:28:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 US commits to nuclear power http://www.greenfuelconversion.com/us-commits-to-nuclear-power-74 http://www.greenfuelconversion.com/us-commits-to-nuclear-power-74#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:15:40 +0000 Amelie http://www.greenfuelconversion.com/?p=74 The US Government has affirmed their intention to re-invest in nuclear power generation with the announcement that $8 billion will be spent on 2 new reactors in Georgia. These will be the first reactors built in 30 years in the USA.

Coming at a time when the energy usage of the US and industrialising nations has come into the spotlight, nuclear advocates have long been arguing that even though nuclear waste and spent fuel pose very large problems in their safe containment, transportation and disposal, the benefits of a much reduced carbon dioxide output during energy generation were worth investigating.

It seems that the climate change debate is helping the cause of nuclear energy around the world, which had been experiencing a poor public image since the 80s, with incidents like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl fresh in the minds of many. What was once considered as an unthinkable option a few years ago is now becoming the only realistic quick-fix solution.

]]> http://www.greenfuelconversion.com/us-commits-to-nuclear-power-74/feed 0 10 New Nuclear Power Stations for UK http://www.greenfuelconversion.com/10-new-nuclear-power-stations-for-uk-8 http://www.greenfuelconversion.com/10-new-nuclear-power-stations-for-uk-8#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:52:16 +0000 Amelie http://www.greenfuelconversion.com/?p=8 The government has given the locations where 10 new nuclear powerstations are to built. These power stations are required to prevent power shortages in the future as fossil fuel power stations are used less frequently. The majority of the new sites are already home to nuclear power stations. The ten sites seen as suitable for future power stations are:

Sellafield in Cumbria, Hartlepool, Heysham in Lancashire, Hinkley Point in Somerset, Oldbury in Gloucestershire, Sizewell in Suffolk and Wylfa in North Wales. Only Dungoness in Kent was seen as unsuitable on environmental grounds.The new sites are Braystones, Kirksanton are new sites while Bradwell in Essex  was a former  site in the past.

The Infrastructure Planning Commission, will make the decissions after national and local consultation. However it is expected that the propossals will be fast tracked so that some stations will be producing power by as early as 2018.

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