The latest Cabinet reshuffle has produced the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Nuclear power is central to its plans, reports Hamish Lal
Nuclear power is soaring up the agenda. The Government has recently further elevated new nuclear build by establishing the Office of Nuclear Development (OND), while the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has entered into various land acquisition agreements with nuclear utility developers and transferred ownership of Sellafield. The private sector has been busy too, with EDF Energy’s £12.5bn takeover offer for British Energy. All this activity may appear rather disparate and unsynchronised, but when one lifts the various ‘ministerial’, ‘commercial’ and ‘regulatory’ veils, the picture becomes clearer.
