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Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has requested thedeadline for its opinion on Posiva Oy's operating licence application forthe world's first used fuel repository to be extended until the end of2024. In September last year, it said it would not complete its review bythe end of 2023 as originally planned. Radioactive waste management companyPosiva…

– Dr Richard Dixon. The UK Government is trying to create the impression that it’s all go for nuclear. It isn’t.The UK's nuclear enthusiasts have been on another PR offensive, withannouncements of new reactors and possible life extensions to old reactors. All of it denying the reality that nuclear is much too slow to build andmuch…

The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hourdue to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than waspreviously thought. Some scientists are concerned that this additionalsource of freshwater pouring into the north Atlantic might mean a collapseof the ocean currents called the Atlantic meridional…

The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities are keen to assist University of Sussex academics in exposing the links to the military that were revealed in the recent UK Government’s launch of a ‘Roadmap’ for the civil nuclear sector (11 January 2024).[1] In the public interest, Andy Stirling, Professor of Science and Technology Policy, and Research…

Democracy Now. JANUARY 17, 2024 We hear from Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous, whose recent article for The Intercept documents how Israel bombed two Al Jazeera journalists in mid-December while they were accompanying rescue workers, seriously injuring both. But while the network’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh managed to get to an ambulance nearby, his cameraman Samer Abudaqa…

January 18, 2024 (Mainichi Japan) International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Executive Director Melissa Parke is set to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Jan. 19 to 21, ahead of the three-year anniversary since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force. The risk of a nuclear conflict is at an all-time…

The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities are supporting a petition andwebinar hosted by 100 percent Renewables UK to condemn and counter theone-sided pre-Christmas hearing convened by Parliament's Environment AuditCommittee in support of the deployment of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors,and to instead host an enquiry into the practicalities of a 100% renewablefuture for the UK. The…

 Nuclear minister Andrew Bowie had a case to hail it a “majormilestone”, with Julia Pyke, Sizewell’s joint managing director,calling it a “significant moment” for the project and for UK “energysecurity”. Even so, there is still a long way to go. The project willcost £30 billion-plus, with the PM yet to make a final investmentdecision. Sizewell…

Sizewell C opponents warn Suffolk nuclear plant 'could be the new HS2'.Campaigners fighting a new nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast saythey fear a shortfall in finance for the project could mean it becomesanother HS2. Their comments came amid a landmark moment for the building ofSizewell C as a Development Consent Order was triggered,…

Nuclear power may be almost twice as expensive as the government thought.Nuclear power must stand on its own two feet, the government has said. ButVattenfall's latest assessment shows that new nuclear power can be almosttwice as expensive - which may require multibillion-dollar governmentsupport. Sweden's forecasts from the Energy Agency are based on the factthat electricity…