Nuclear in UK Law
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Nuclear secrets safety sealed
Professor James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, had sealed the envelope containing the instructions, many decades ago. Chadwick’s prescience is celebrated by the UK’s Royal Society. So is his...
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Nuclear Sector Deal — Financing New UK Nuclear Power Projects
The UK government recently published its Nuclear Sector Deal (Sector Deal) as part of the UK’s modern industrial strategy. Recognising the sector’s strategic importance in delivering future energy ...
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Nuclear Sector Deal — Financing New UK Nuclear Power Projects
By Beatrice Lo and Heeran Caselton The UK government recently published its Nuclear Sector Deal (Sector Deal) as part of the UK’s modern industrial strategy. Recognising the sector’s strategic impo...
- Nuclear Law & Regulation
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Fronting-up to the Cost of Nuclear?
The Government has issued a consultation paper to assess whether the Regulated Asset Base (“RAB”) model for funding nuclear projects would incentivise investment by the private sector into new nucl...
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Chinese Nuclear Reactor Set for UK Generic Design Assessment
In a statement made to Parliament on 10 January 2017, Minister for the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Jesse Norman, confirmed that he had requested the UK’s nuclear r...
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UK Government Takes Further Steps Towards Increasing Nuclear Energy Capabilities
by Charlotte Doerr The 2008 Nuclear White Paper issued by the UK Government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, (which, at the time, was known as the Department of Business Enterprise...
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Successful procurement challenge against the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
On 29 July the High Court handed down its judgment in the high-profile Energy Solutions (ES) v Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) case. The case concerned the competition to become the “Paren...
- What Is Nuclear Fusion?
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Will Nuclear Energy Phase-Out or be Powered by New Players?
By Antonio Morales and Rosa Espin The news that the UK is to start construction on the first nuclear power plant to be built in two decades at Hinkley Point C has put nuclear energy firmly back amo...
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