| Nuclear industry welcomes nuclear centre of excellence | | Print | |
| Thursday, 16 July 2009 | |
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THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (NIA) has welcomed the Government’s establishment of the Nuclear Centre of Excellence. The centre will be a major boost to the promotion of proliferation resistant safe nuclear power around the world as well as helping to lead research to further reduce the environmental impact of the technology. Keith Parker, Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association which represents 175 UK companies operating in the UK civil nuclear sector, welcomed the decision saying that: “I am delighted that the Prime Minister has made this announcement and we very much look forward to working with Government on the centre’s establishment. It will be a unique partnership between industry, government, academia and our international partners. Civil nuclear power has the potential to provide secure low-carbon electricity for many countries in the world but the worry has always been that some could try to use it as a cover to develop a weapons programme. The new centre will work to develop more proliferation resistant technology. “Nuclear is already the lowest carbon emitting generating technology in the UK (with full lifecycle emissions roughly equivalent to onshore wind and a hundred times less than gas fired power stations) but there is always more to be done and I’m pleased to see that the centre will be working on this too.” Comments (0)
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