Nuclear Power

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Household bills will help subsidise nuclear plants

ShareThisNew nuclear power stations will be paid for through household electricity bills, despite the Coalition's promises not to subsidise the controversial technology.
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SNP says English taxpayers should pay £30 billion North Sea oil costs after independence

ShareThisTaxpayers in the remainder of the UK should pay the £30 billion cost of decommissioning Scottish oil rigs decades after independence, the SNP energy minister has told MPs.
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Iran, Syria, North Korea: Is the world sitting on a tinderbox?

ShareThisCould rogue states like Iran, Syria and North Korea threaten global stability, asks David Blair.
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David Cameron paves way for Japanese to build nuclear power stations in UK

ShareThisJapanese companies could help build nuclear power stations in Britain under a joint framework signed by David Cameron.
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E.ON and RWE scrap UK nuclear power plans

ShareThisGerman utility giants E.ON and RWE have scrapped their plans to build new nuclear plants in the UK, leaving the country's plans for future energy security "in tatters".
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E.ON and RWE scrap UK nuclear power plans

ShareThisGerman utility giants E.ON and RWE have scrapped their plans to build new nuclear plants in the UK, leaving the country's plans for future energy security "in tatters".
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William Hague could learn from Operation Babylon

ShareThisIsrael's 1981 bombing raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor has echoes for the Middle East today, says Azriel Bermant.
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Photographs of Chernobyl and the ghost town of Pripyat by Michael Day

ShareThisPhotographs of Chernobyl and the ghost town of Pripyat by Michael Day.
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Inside the still highly radioactive Fukushima plant

ShareThisFukushima Daiichi nuclear plant operator Tepco releases video footage showing the top level of No. 2 reactor building where radiation levels remain too high for human workers.
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UK firms in danger of missing out on nuclear plant contracts

ShareThisBritish companies will struggle to win the bulk of the £60bn expected to be spent building the next generation of nuclear plants, the Prime Minister has been told.