Trade and Industry - Fourth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 4 July 2006.
Contents
Terms of Reference
1 Introduction
2 Building a national consensus
A Government commitment to nuclear power
A cross-party consensus
The Energy Review process
Engaging the public
Public opinion
Creating 'buy-in'
3 Constructing and operating nuclear power
stations
The regulatory process
Constraints under the existing system
How might the system be reformed?
Feasibility and risks
Finding suitable sites
Advantages of using existing sites
Risks of using existing sites
Looking elsewhere
Choosing the right technology
Available reactor designs
Future reactor designs
Factors to consider
The supply chain
UK capacity and constraints
Global capacity and constraints
Uranium fuel availability
Demand for uranium
Uranium supplies
Future developments
Fuel reprocessing
Security and proliferation
Security regulation in the UK
Risks to security
The implications of nuclear new build
Proliferation
4 Managing decommissioning and long-term
waste disposal
The existing waste legacy
Decommissioning implications of new build
Waste arising from new build
Finding and funding a long-term solution
Sorting out the past first
In search of a solution
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
The long-term storage of new waste
Financing the storage of new waste
5 Financing nuclear new build
The UK's electricity market
Nuclear power in a liberalised market
Market players in the UK
Assessing the costs
The component costs of nuclear generation
Current cost estimates
Costing other forms of generation
Should costs matter to the Government?
Creating the returns
What the industry wants
Current instruments for reducing carbon emissions
Approaches to long-term carbon pricing
6 Wider policy concerns
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions
Is nuclear power low carbon?
The impact of nuclear power on reducing emissions
Other approaches to reducing emissions
Renewables
Energy efficiency
Providing grid capacity
A centralised grid network?
Connecting new nuclear build
Securing electricity supply
Will there be an 'energy gap'?
Providing capacity
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal minutes
List of witnesses
List of written evidence
ORAL EVIDENCE
6 February 2006
16 May 2006
23 May 2006
6 June 2006
13 June 2006
19 June 2006
20 June 2006
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