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so-called “small nuclear reactors”
Downing Street told the Financial Times, which it faithfully reported, that it was “considering” £2 billion of taxpayers’ money to support “small nuclear reactors”
They are not small
The first thing to know about these beasts is that they are not small. 440MW? The plant at Wylfa (Anglesey, north Wales) was 460MW (it’s closed now). 440MW is bigger than all the Magnox type reactors except Wylfa and comparable to an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor.
Only if military needs are driving this decision is it explicable.
”Clearly, the military need to maintain both reactor construction and operation skills and access to fissile materials will remain. I can well see the temptation for Defence Ministers to try to transfer this cost to civilian budgets,”
CryptoCompare December Review - Surging Institutional Demand For BTC Date
17/12/2020
Bitcoin continues to attract investors attention as crypto volumes skyrocket to record highs. CryptoCompare s latest Exchange Review reported an incredible surge in trading activity: derivatives volume doubled to an all-time high of $1.32tn and spot volume increased by 60% to a monthly total of $906bn.
CME s derivatives volumes shot up by 76.8% to $17.1bn and its open interest climbed to $962mn (up 62%), signalling an increasing interest in BTC from institutional traders.
Driven by the ever-growing appetite for Bitcoin, we recently launched the Bitcoin Volatility Index developed in partnership with leading industry expert Prof. Carol Alexander and her team at the University of Sussex Business School. This is the world s first index that measures the implied volatility of bitcoin and paves the way for bitcoin futures and a range of volatility-linked exchange traded p
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By: Neil Vowles
Last updated: Thursday, 19 November 2020
Prof Constantin Blome is one of two new additions from Sussex to this year s Highly Cited Researchers List.
The University of Sussex has achieved another record number of academics recognised in a global list of highly cited researchers.
Nine University of Sussex academics have been included in the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List compiled by Clarivate Analytics – up from seven in last year’s global rankings.
The list recognises researchers who have produced multiple highly cited papers in the last decade, with papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for a publication field and year.
Dr Christine Grant is a Chartered and Registered Occupational Psychologist and Deputy Head of School at Coventry University. She is a leading applied researcher in the psychology of remote e-working and agile working. Her work explores the impact of technology on remote e-workers work-life balance, job effectiveness and well-being, with an interest in developing new measures and related interventions for employees and employers, including the recently published E-Work Life scale. Christine has secured research funding with the ESPRC, British Psychological Society and many others. She has also worked across sectors with a wide range of organisations as an external consultant. Recently, she contributed to British Psychological Society’s Covid19 crisis working group ‘working differently’ and the government’s expert consultation on the coronavirus pandemic. Her work is disseminated widely through journals, conferences, practitioner guidance and in the media.