Nuclear Power Public DebateKeeping the lights on in

South Yorkshire

• Welcome -- Dr Malcolm Denman

• Housekeeping

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Cleaner, Smarter Energy

Cleaner, Smarter Energy

Source: DTI Energy White Paper 2003

OUR ENERGY FUTUREOUR ENERGY FUTURE

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Cockenzie

1152 MW

Peterhead

1550 MW

Torness

1250 MW

Hartlepool

1210 MWTeesside

1875 MWSaltend

1200 MW

Longannet

2304 MWHunterston

1190 MWHeysham

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1250 MWHeysham 1

1150 MWDrax

3945 MWEggborough

1960 MWFerrybridge

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1955 MWFiddler‘s Ferry

1961 MW Connah‘s Quay

1420 MWDinorwig

1728 MW

Hinkley Point B

1220 MW

Aberthaw

1489 MW

South Humber

Bank

1312 MWWest

Burton

1932 MWCottam

2008 MWRatcliffe

2000 MW

Tilbury B

1020 MW

Didcot B

1370 MW

CLOSING

2008 - 15

CLOSING

2015 - 25

Source: BBC; Deloitte & Touche LLP

Sizewell B

1188 MWBarking

1000 MWKingsnorth

1974 MW

Dungeness

1110 MWDidcot A

2020 MW

CLOSING

2015 - 25

CLOSING

2025 - 40

CLOSING

2008 – 15

CLOSING

2008 - 15

CLOSING

2015 - 25

CLOSING

2008 - 15

• We will go nuclear in the long term

CERN -- development of Nuclear fusion

Solar

NEW CONVENTIONAL GENERATING CAPACITY

• COST - APPROX. £2 BILLION

• TIME - 10 TO 15 YEARS

• NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM

Source: TVO Nuclear Service

Setting the context

• Andrew Smith London Analytics Ltd

• Presentations• Dr Russell Hand

• Michael Bailey

• Sean Morris

• John Grant

• Discussion moderator David Garlovsky

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.

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

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.

Decision making

“Competition forces everyone to overstate their case and conceal uncomfortable facts.”

Fuel’s Paradise -- Energy Options for Britain

Peter Chapman 1975

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, 1979A 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