Report Mar. 28 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Office, Defence Equipment Plan 2023–33 , Session 2023–24, HC 315, 4 December 2023, p 1725submarine reactors
Report Mar. 27 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Reference 2nd Lessons from implementing IR35 reforms HC 60 3rd The future of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors
Mentions:
1: Findlay, Russell (Con - West Scotland) reactors within Scotland’s energy provision. - Speech Link
2: Slater, Lorna (Green - Lothian) modular reactors use the same method of electricity generation as traditional nuclear fission. - Speech Link
3: Findlay, Russell (Con - West Scotland) all new nuclear and the thousands of jobs that it would create. - Speech Link
4: Slater, Lorna (Green - Lothian) We do not need nuclear power. - Speech Link
5: Slater, Lorna (Green - Lothian) New nuclear is expensive, and those costs will impact consumer bills. - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they gave, in deciding on introducing additional electricity generation by way of new gas facilities, to whether these requirements could have been met by accelerating the small modular reactors programme.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
A range of sources of generation contribute to system flexibility, especially when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining. In the case of nuclear, Great British Nuclear is running a Technology Selection Process for Small Modular Reactors. The Government’s aim is to run the fastest competition of its kind in the world, to identify technologies with the potential to deliver projects in the mid-2030s.
In the immediate term, to maintain security of electricity supply, a limited amount of new gas capacity is needed as the main mature technology capable of providing sustained flexible capacity.
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: Defence Nuclear Enterprise Command PaperFound: Defence Nuclear Enterprise Command Paper
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: Defence Nuclear Enterprise Command PaperFound: Defence Nuclear Enterprise Command Paper
Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) reactors, which were not covered in the NAO report. - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) Can my noble friend answer the question about small nuclear reactors? - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) is not the subject of this particular policy statement, but my understanding is that Great British Nuclear - Speech Link
Report Mar. 22 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: –21HC 59 2nd Lessons from implementing IR35 reforms HC 60 3rd The future of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors
Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2024 to Question 18508 on Oldbury Power Station and Wylfa Power Station: Land, who undertook the independent valuation; and whether the commercial value of land adjacent to decommissioned reactors was taken into account as part of that valuation.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Independent valuations of the land were conducted by Knight Frank. The inherent characteristics of the land as well as the previous development work which make the land suitable for consideration for nuclear development informed the valuation of the sites.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: HMT ministers' meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel: 1 July to 30 September 2023Found: Jeremy Hunt 20/07/2023 EDF Energy To discuss the UK nuclear sector.