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Hitachi pull out of new UK nuclear at Wylfa
Interview with Dr Paul Dorfman, 07.39am.
BBC Radio Five Live, 17th January 2019
Britain’s nuclear energy future in jeopardy
Hitachi set to suspend work on £16bn reactor, leaving Hinkley Point as the only new UK plant still being built. Quoting Dr Paul Dorfman.
The Week, 15th January 2019
Hitachi to decide on fate of UK nuclear plant
The UK government’s nuclear policy is under renewed scrutiny as the firm behind a £20bn reactor in Wales looks set to halt construction. Quoting Dr Paul Dorfman.
BBC News, 14th January 2019
Renewable Energy in the UK Past, Present and Future
A detailed account of how renewable energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream in the UK.
By Prof David Elliott
Palgrave MacMillan, January 2019
Economics of Sizewell C, Radio 4 Today programme
Prof Steve Thomas on the economics of Sizewell C (23.30 mins into the programme).
BBC Radio 4, 3rd January 2019
Sizewell C debate – Radio 4 Today programme
Dr Paul Dorfman and Dr Sue Ion debate Sizewell C as final consultation is launched. (From about 2.50.)
BBC Radio 4, 2nd January 2019
Deere-Jones T. (2019): The Sea to Land Transfer of Man Made Radioactivity, Research Paper, Tim Deere-Jones, Marine Radioactivity Research & Consultancy, 2019.
By Tim Deere-Jones
1st January 2019
UK’s dream is now its nuclear nightmare
Nobody knows what to do with a vast uranium and plutonium stockpile built up in the UK by reprocessing spent fuel. It is now a nuclear nightmare.
By Paul Brown
Climate News Network, 14th December 2018
100% renewables? No problems
Australian academics Mark Diesendorf and Ben Elliston have challenged the views of fellow Australian academics Brook and Bradshaw and Heard et al., who criticized studies that claim it will be possible to supply 100% of global power (renewable electricity or “RElec”) or even all global energy needs from renewables.
By Prof David Elliott
Physics World, 21st November 2018