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 Behind the (somewhat dirty) scenes of nuclear waste processing. Nuclearenergy, even if many call it "clean", produces a lot of waste (and costs"crazy money"). A researcher was able to carry out a survey lastingapproximately one year on two French waste landfill sites. How are thesethings managed? Exclusive interview. “There is no such thing asdecontamination. This…

By ZeroHedge - Jan 09, 2024,  https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/France-Moves-Away-from-Renewable-Targets-in-Favor-of-Nuclear-Power.html The bill proposes a change from reducing to just tending towards a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It includes the removal of various objectives related to renewable energy production and consumption. The bill strongly affirms the use of nuclear energy as a sustainable choice and includes it as a key objective…

Peace and Planet News, by Anthony Donovan | Winter 2023 Edition We’ve seen an amazing level of bipartisan support!” For what initiative do we hear this rare statement echoed about Congress today? The 15th Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, held once again at the Hyatt Regency in Arlington, Va., Feb. 13–15. For three days the rooms are filled with…

 West Burton, a sprawling site that is also home to a gas-fired station,has been chosen as the location for a nuclear fusion plant that thegovernment aims to have in operation by 2040. It is an ambitious plan.Fusion has been the next big thing in energy since the 1950s, but it stillfaces big technical obstacles to…

 Economic growth relies in part on affordable and reliable energy. Demandfor energy is set to rise by up to a third between now and 2050 to supporta global economy that will be twice as large and a population of 2bn morepeople. This surge in population and productivity will be most concentratedin emerging markets, which makes…

Hundreds of shipments of nuclear waste were buried at a facility nearCarlsbad in 2024, and the federal government was poised to send even morewaste to the site in 2024. For that work, the Department of Energy’scontractor Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO) earned about $11.5million or about 89% of its available $13 million fee between Feb.…

Https://www.youtube.com/embed/cZcg409HYIc?si=IkgL_SeEZ7F-ndtm Youtube clip above is from My Informant, not from the BBC  A new BBC Panorama documentary is set to look into the ongoing saga aroundnuclear weapons potentially being stored at RAF Lakenheath. Fears have beenmounting that the north Suffolk airbase is set to host nuclear weapons forthe first time in 16 years. The first…

 In Phase 1, Community Investment Funding of up to £1 million per annum ismade available by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) to each of the threeCommunity Partnerships currently engaged in the siting process for aGeological Disposal Facility (GDF). Where a Community Partnership / SearchArea is taken forward into Phase 2, involving the commencement of boreholeinvestigations, this…

Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), the division of the taxpayer-funded NuclearDecommissioning Authority, charged with identifying a location for aGeological Disposal Facility (GDF) into which Britain’s legacy and futurehigh-level radioactive waste will be deposited, has stated that the twocriteria that will determine the location are – the availability ofsufficient ‘suitable’ geology and the consent of a ‘willingcommunity’.…

Given the serious cost, scheduling, and scientific questions about the US government's program for producing new plutonium cores (or pits) for nuclear warheads, the authors recommend the program be scaled back to manufacture 10 to 20 pits per year. Such a demonstration production line would establish the capacity to produce pits, if further research shows they are needed.