Extract from Energy
Security and Net Zero topical questions
(Copeland) (Con): Do my
right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the Minister for
Nuclear and Networks, my hon. Friend the Member for West
Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (), agree that the very best
location for two 470 MW Rolls-Royce small
modular reactors is next to Sellafield, which will use some of
the power and is a centre of nuclear excellence?
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security
and Net Zero (): My hon. Friend is another
great champion for nuclear. It gave me great pleasure to visit
her constituency just a few weeks ago to see the great work being
done at Sellafield. As we have set out, we aim to deploy up to 24
GW of nuclear energy by 2050, and we remain open to all available
technologies that will deliver it. We are developing a new
national policy statement that will provide the planning
framework for new nuclear power beyond 2025. We are consulting on
a proposed way forward for determining how new nuclear
developments might be located.
Extracts from second
reading debate (Lords) of the Automated Vehicles Bill
of Dillington (CB):...The
other area for AVs is on the high seas. Rolls-Royce
is on record as saying that a greater use of autonomous marine
vessels could save the global marine industry up to £80 billion
per annum in potential reductions to capital costs, manning costs
and fuel costs. However, all that is in the future and, as the
Minister said, not particularly relevant to this Bill, even if
the technology implicit in the Bill is what is going to make it
happen. So I conclude by repeating that I thoroughly approve of
the Bill and I look forward to us all ironing out the inevitable
potential problems as we take it forward...
(Con):...The Bill
sets out that there will be an ongoing review of the vehicles,
but it should be more a review of the vehicles, the software and
the technologies. How regular is that review to be? For it to be
optimal, it needs to be done in real time and second by second.
What learnings have the Government taken from other industries,
such as the airline industry, including the approach
that Rolls-Royce takes
with its sensational Trent engines?
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