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Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Index Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) is a project to construct a 3,200 MWe nuclear power station with two EPR reactors in Somerset, England. [1]

119 relations: Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor, Agora Energiewende, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Amyas Morse, An Taisce, Andy Stirling, Anti-nuclear movement, Autorité de sûreté nucléaire, Électricité de France, Ørsted (company), Base load, BBC, Bristol Channel, British Cellophane, British Energy, Cannington, Somerset, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centrica, China, China General Nuclear Power Group, China National Nuclear Corporation, Computer, ConservativeHome, Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Court of Justice of the European Union, David Cameron, David Howarth, Department of Energy and Climate Change, E3G, EDF Energy, Elizabeth, Lady Gass, Emmanuel Macron, Energy in the United Kingdom, Energy policy of the United Kingdom, Environmental impact assessment, EPR (nuclear reactor), European Commission, European Commissioner for Competition, European Union competition law, Fairfield, Stogursey, Fennovoima, Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant, French Ministry for the Economy and Finance, French presidential election, 2017, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Gérard Magnin, George Monbiot, George Osborne, Government of the United Kingdom, ..., Greg Clark, Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant, Hansard, Hinkley Point, Hinkley Point A nuclear power station, Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station, Imperial College Business School, Ineos, Infrastructure Planning Commission, Integral fast reactor, Interconnector, Interest rate, Jeremy Sullivan, Jim Ratcliffe, Joaquín Almunia, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Liquid fluoride thorium reactor, Listed building, Liu Xiaoming, Magnox, Manor of Sydenham, Marine Le Pen, Market capitalization, McKinsey & Company, Member of parliament, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Moorside Nuclear Power Station, National Audit Office (United Kingdom), National Infrastructure Commission, National security, Nick Timothy, NNB Generation Company, Nuclear power, Nuclear power in France, Nuclear power in the United Kingdom, Nuclear reactor, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Offshore wind power, Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, Orano, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Policy Connect, Pressurized water reactor, Proposed nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom, Public Accounts Committee, Rate of return, Seawater, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Severn Estuary, Sizewell nuclear power stations, Smart grid, Somerset, South West England, Special adviser (UK), Spent nuclear fuel, Subsidy, Teollisuuden Voima, The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, The Guardian, Theresa May, Trident (UK nuclear programme), Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations, University of Sussex, Voimaosakeyhtiö SF, Watt, Wind power in the United Kingdom. Expand index (69 more) »

Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor

The Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor designed and operated in the United Kingdom.

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Agora Energiewende

Agora Energiewende is a think tank supporting the ''Energiewende'' in Germany.

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (born 7 December 1957) is the international business editor of the Daily Telegraph.

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Amyas Morse

Sir Amyas Charles Edward Morse, is a British auditor who is the current Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office, an independent Parliamentary body.

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An Taisce

An Taisce - The National Trust for Ireland (meaning "the store" or "the treasury"), was established in June 1948.

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Andy Stirling

Andy Stirling (born 3 March 1961) is Professor of science and technology policy at Sussex University.

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Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

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Autorité de sûreté nucléaire

The Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (Nuclear Safety Authority, ASN) is an independent French administrative authority set up by law 2006-686 of 13 June 2006 concerning nuclear transparency and safety.

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Électricité de France

Électricité de France S.A. (EDF; Electricity of France) is a French electric utility company, largely owned by the French state.

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Ørsted (company)

Ørsted A/S (formerly DONG Energy) is a power company based in Fredericia, Denmark.

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Base load

The base load on a grid is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.

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British Cellophane

British Cellophane Ltd (BCL) was a joint venture company formed in 1935 between La Cellophane SA and Courtaulds, when they began building a major factory for producing Cellophane in Bridgwater, Somerset, England.

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British Energy

British Energy was the UK's largest electricity generation company by volume, before being taken over by Électricité de France (EDF) in 2009.

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Cannington, Somerset

Cannington is a village and civil parish north-west of Bridgwater in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England.

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Central Electricity Generating Board

The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was the cornerstone of the British electricity industry for almost forty years, from 1957 to privatisation in the 1990s.

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Centrica

Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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China General Nuclear Power Group

China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), formerly China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, is a major energy corporation under the SASAC of the State Council.

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China National Nuclear Corporation

The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is a state-owned entity founded in 1955 in Beijing.

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Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

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ConservativeHome

ConservativeHome is a centre-right political blog in the United Kingdom.

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Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (informally called the Espoo Convention) is a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) convention signed in Espoo, Finland, in 1991 that entered into force in 1997.

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

The Court of Appeal (COA, formally "Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in England") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Court of Justice of the European Union

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) (Cour de justice de l'Union européenne) is the institution of the European Union (EU) that encompasses the whole judiciary.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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David Howarth

David Ross Howarth (born 10 November 1958) is a British academic and politician who was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10.

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Department of Energy and Climate Change

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was a British government department created on 3 October 2008, by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take over some of the functions related to energy of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and those relating to climate change of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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E3G

E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) is a climate change think tank operating to accelerate a global transition to a low-carbon future.

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EDF Energy

EDF Energy is an integrated energy company in the United Kingdom, with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom.

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Elizabeth, Lady Gass

Dame Elizabeth Periam Gass, Lady Gass, (née Acland-Hood; born 2 March 1940) was Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset from 1998 to 2015.

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Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician serving as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra since 14 May 2017.

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Energy in the United Kingdom

Energy use in the United Kingdom stood at 2,249 TWh (193.4 million tonnes of oil equivalent) in 2014.

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Energy policy of the United Kingdom

The current energy policy of the United Kingdom is set out in the Energy White Paper of May 2007 and Low Carbon Transition Plan of July 2009, building on previous work including the 2003 Energy White Paper and the Energy Review Report in 2006.

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Environmental impact assessment

Environmental assessment (EA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action.

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EPR (nuclear reactor)

The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor (PWR) design.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.

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European Commissioner for Competition

The Commissioner for Competition is the member of the European Commission responsible for competition.

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European Union competition law

European competition law is the competition law in use within the European Union.

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Fairfield, Stogursey

Fairfield House is a historic house in Stogursey, Somerset, England.

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Fennovoima

Fennovoima Ltd (Fennovoima Oy) is a Finnish nuclear power company established by a consortium of Finnish power and industrial companies.

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Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant

The Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant is located at Flamanville, Manche, France on the Cotentin Peninsula.

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French Ministry for the Economy and Finance

The French Ministry for the Economy and Finance (Ministère de l'économie et des finances), called the Finance Ministry for short and informally referred to as Bercy, is one of the most important ministries in the cabinet of France.

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French presidential election, 2017

The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

The was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.

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Gérard Magnin

Gérard Magnin (born 1951) was Executive Director of Energy Cities between 1994 and 2014, after having been the original founder of this European network that brings together about 1000 local authorities from 30 European countries.

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George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism.

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George Osborne

George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born 23 May 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Greg Clark

Gregory David Clark (born 28 August 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician who is the MP for Tunbridge Wells and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

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Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant

Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant (Hanhikiven ydinvoimalaitos, Hanhikivi kärnkraftverk) is a nuclear power plant proposed for construction on the Finnish Hanhikivi peninsula, in the municipality of Pyhäjoki.

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Hansard

Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary Debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Hinkley Point

Hinkley Point is a headland on the Bristol Channel coast of Somerset, England, north of Bridgwater and west of Burnham-on-Sea, close to the mouth of the River Parrett.

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Hinkley Point A nuclear power station

Hinkley Point A nuclear power station is a decommissioned Magnox Nuclear power station located on a site in Somerset on the Bristol Channel coast, west of the River Parrett estuary.

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Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station

Hinkley Point B is a nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel coast of south west England.

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Imperial College Business School

Imperial College Business School is a global business school located in London.

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Ineos

INEOS is a privately owned multinational chemicals company headquartered in London, UK, and with registered offices in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, UK and London, United Kingdom.

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Infrastructure Planning Commission

The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for the examining and in certain circumstances the decision making body for proposed nationally significant infrastructure projects in England and Wales.

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Integral fast reactor

The integral fast reactor (IFR, originally advanced liquid-metal reactor) is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator (a "fast" reactor).

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Interconnector

An interconnector is a structure which enables energy to flow between networks.

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Interest rate

An interest rate is the amount of interest due per period, as a proportion of the amount lent, deposited or borrowed (called the principal sum).

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Jeremy Sullivan

Sir Jeremy Mirth Sullivan (born 17 September 1945) became a Lord Justice of Appeal in January 2009 and was appointed Senior President of Tribunals in 2012.

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Jim Ratcliffe

Sir James Arthur Ratcliffe (born 18 October 1952) is a British billionaire chemical engineer turned financier and industrialist.

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Joaquín Almunia

Joaquín Almunia Amann (born 17 June 1948) is a Spanish politician and formerly, prominent member of the European Commission.

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Johannes Kepler University Linz

The Johannes Kepler University Linz (German: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, short: JKU) is a public institution of higher education in Austria.

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Liquid fluoride thorium reactor

The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (acronym LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Liu Xiaoming

Liu Xiaoming (born January 1956) is a Chinese diplomat serving as ambassador to the United Kingdom since 2009.

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Magnox

Magnox is a type of nuclear power/production reactor that was designed to run on natural uranium with graphite as the moderator and carbon dioxide gas as the heat exchange coolant.

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Manor of Sydenham

The Manor of Sydenham was a historic manor in Somerset, England, situated about 1/4 mile north-east of the centre of historic Bridgwater.

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Marine Le Pen

Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen (born 5 August 1968) is a French politician and lawyer serving as President of the National Rally political party (previously named National Front) since 2011, with a brief interruption in 2017.

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Market capitalization

Market capitalization (market cap) is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares.

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McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company is an American worldwide management consulting firm.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the UK Government department for Housing, communities and local government in England.

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Moorside Nuclear Power Station

Moorside Nuclear Power Station is proposed for a site near Sellafield, in Cumbria, United Kingdom.

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National Audit Office (United Kingdom)

The National Audit Office (NAO) is an independent Parliamentary body in the United Kingdom which is responsible for auditing central government departments, government agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

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National Infrastructure Commission

The UK National Infrastructure Commission was established on 5 October 2015 as the non-ministerial government department responsible for providing expert advice to HM Government on the pressing infrastructure challenges facing the United Kingdom.

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National security

National security refers to the security of a nation state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, and is regarded as a duty of government.

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Nick Timothy

Nicholas James Timothy (born March 1980) is a British political adviser.

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NNB Generation Company

Nuclear New Build Generation Company (NNB GenCo) is a subsidiary created by EDF Energy to build and then operate two new nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.

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Nuclear power in France

Nuclear power is a major source of energy in France, with a 40% share of energy consumption in 2015.

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Nuclear power in the United Kingdom

Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generates around a quarter of the country's electricity as of 2016, projected to rise to a third by 2035.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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Office for Nuclear Regulation

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is the safety regulator for the civil nuclear industry in the United Kingdom.

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Offshore wind power

Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the use of wind farms constructed in bodies of water, usually in the ocean on the continental shelf, to harvest wind energy to generate electricity.

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Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant

The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant (Olkiluodon ydinvoimalaitos) is on Olkiluoto Island, which is on the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia in the municipality of Eurajoki in western Finland.

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Orano

Orano (previously Areva) is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy headquartered in Paris La Défense.

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Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, (POST) is the Parliament of the United Kingdom's in-house source of independent, balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology.

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Policy Connect

Policy Connect is an independent, cross-party not-for-profit organisation with two decades in policy work, overseeing the research and delivery of more than 50 key publications.

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Pressurized water reactor

Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (notable exceptions being the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada) and are one of three types of light water reactor (LWR), the other types being boiling water reactors (BWRs) and supercritical water reactors (SCWRs).

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Proposed nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom

Proposed nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom include: Two other sites, Heysham and Hartlepool, were identified as possible locations in 2010 but these appear to have been dropped.

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Public Accounts Committee

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) refers to a committee in the legislature that must study public audits, invite ministers, permanent secretaries or other ministry officials to the committee for questioning, and issue a report of their findings subsequent to a government budget audit.

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Rate of return

In finance, return is a profit on an investment.

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Seawater

Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean.

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Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DEBEIS), or informally Business Secretary, is a cabinet position in the United Kingdom government.

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Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was a British government cabinet position from 2008 to 2016.

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Severn Estuary

The Severn Estuary (Môr Hafren) is the estuary of the River Severn, the longest river in Great Britain.

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Sizewell nuclear power stations

The Sizewell nuclear power stations are two nuclear power stations located near the small fishing village of Sizewell in Suffolk, England.

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Smart grid

A smart grid is an electrical grid which includes a variety of operational and energy measures including smart meters, smart appliances, renewable energy resources, and energy efficient resources.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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South West England

South West England is one of nine official regions of England.

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Special adviser (UK)

A special adviser works in a supporting role to the British government.

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Spent nuclear fuel

Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant).

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Subsidy

A subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy.

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Teollisuuden Voima

Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO; Industrins Kraft Abp, Industrial Power Corporation) is a Finnish nuclear power company owned by a consortium of power and industrial companies.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Theresa May

Theresa Mary May (Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016.

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Trident (UK nuclear programme)

Trident, also known as the Trident nuclear programme or Trident nuclear deterrent, covers the development, procurement and operation of nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom and their means of delivery.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit science advocacy organization based in the United States.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is a public research university in Falmer, Sussex, England.

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Voimaosakeyhtiö SF

Voimaosakeyhtiö SF is a Finnish company and a main shareholder of nuclear power company Fennovoima.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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Wind power in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is one of the best locations for wind power in the world and is considered to be the best in Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station

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