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Nuclear Power Public Debate Keeping the lights on in South Yorkshire

Nuclear Power Public Debate Keeping the lights on in South Yorkshire. Welcome -- Dr Malcolm Denman Housekeeping. Cleaner, Smarter Energy. Energy Reliability. Fuel Poverty. Competitiveness. Low Carbon. OUR ENERGY FUTURE. Source: DTI Energy White Paper 2003.

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Nuclear Power Public Debate Keeping the lights on in South Yorkshire

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  1. Nuclear Power Public DebateKeeping the lights on in South Yorkshire • Welcome -- Dr Malcolm Denman • Housekeeping

  2. Cleaner, Smarter Energy Energy Reliability Fuel Poverty Competitiveness Low Carbon OUR ENERGY FUTURE Source: DTI Energy White Paper 2003

  3. Product:Refrigerator without frozen food compartment

  4. Longannet 2304 MW Cockenzie 1152 MW Peterhead 1550 MW Torness 1250 MW CLOSING 2015 - 25 Hartlepool 1210 MW CLOSING 2008 - 15 Hunterston 1190 MW CLOSING 2008 - 15 Teesside 1875 MW Heysham 2 1250 MW CLOSING 2015 - 25 Saltend 1200 MW South Humber Bank 1312 MW Heysham 1 1150 MW CLOSING 2008 - 15 West Burton 1932 MW Drax 3945 MW Eggborough 1960 MW Cottam 2008 MW Ferrybridge C 1955 MW Ratcliffe 2000 MW Fiddler‘s Ferry 1961 MW CLOSING 2025 - 40 Sizewell B 1188 MW Barking 1000 MW Connah‘s Quay 1420 MW Kingsnorth 1974 MW Dinorwig 1728 MW Tilbury B 1020 MW Aberthaw 1489 MW Dungeness 1110 MW CLOSING 2015 - 25 CLOSING 2008 – 15 Hinkley Point B 1220 MW Didcot A 2020 MW Didcot B 1370 MW Source: BBC; Deloitte & Touche LLP

  5. We will go nuclear in the long term Solar CERN -- development of Nuclear fusion

  6. NEW CONVENTIONAL GENERATING CAPACITY • COST - APPROX. £2 BILLION • TIME - 10 TO 15 YEARS • NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM Source: TVO Nuclear Service

  7. Setting the context • Andrew Smith London Analytics Ltd • Presentations • Dr Russell Hand • Michael Bailey • Sean Morris • John Grant • Discussion moderator David Garlovsky

  8. Bridging the Energy Gap • Around 30% of today's electrical power generating plant are expected to close by 2020 some due to reaching the end of their working lives and others due to the Large Combustion Plant Directive, when they will close because of economic considerations or opt for limit life derogation. • Existing plant will be capped. • Increased demand for electricity.

  9. Micro-Combined Heat & Power UK – 18 million gas boilers that are replaced at a rate of 6% a year, could have over two million units in place by 2010, representing a capacity of around 2.4 GW Larger market in Germany 50 GW could be installed in Europe by 2020

  10. Nuclear power station Nuclear power provides 16% of the World's electricity supply [WNA 2005] France generates 78% of its electricity from nuclear from 58 reactors.

  11. Decision making “Competition forces everyone to overstate their case and conceal uncomfortable facts.” Fuel’s Paradise -- Energy Options for Britain Peter Chapman 1975

  12. Nuclear plants have operated safely with notable exceptions:- • Windscale 8th October, 1957 escape of radioactive iodine along with other isotopes such as plutonium, caesium and the highly toxic polonium. • Three mile island 28th March, 1979 A cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the # 2 reactor at Three Mile Island in USA. The reactor was destroyed. • Chernobyl 26 April, 1986 Plant operators undertook unauthorised tests. Russian reactor did not have a containment vessel. • Japan (Monju fast-breeder reactor) November, 1995 (Tokaimura) March, 1997 & 1999

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