The social and environmental impacts of electricity provision affects individuals, economies and countries in ways that are not captured in market prices, but yet are too important to be neglected, according to a report issued recently by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Despite their importance, full accounting for these costs remains difficult, it says. Nuclear regulations laid out The Government has laid out the Nuclear Security (Secretary of State Security Directions) Regulations 2018 in Parliament. These regulations enable the Secretary of State to issue directions directly to industry in the case of an immediate security threat to the civil nuclear sector. Guidance is now being developed by the Office for Nuclear Regulation with the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy to support these regulations, which are expected to come into force on 1 October 2018.
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