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Here is the response on behalf of PAWB, Pobl Atal Wylfa B/People AgainstWylfa B (Ynys Môn and Arfon) and CADNO, Cymdeithas Atal Dinistr NiwclearOesol (Dwyfor and Meirionnydd) to the Welsh Government's review of renewable energy targets. Generally, there is much to welcome in the government's discussion paper.However, in response to Proposal 1, we would like…

Marine Deaths of harbour porpoise, dolphin, pilot whale, sealsand other protected species following last August's seismic blastinglooking at the geology of the Irish Sea for a deep sub-sea nuclear dumphave prompted calls for a halt and an investigation. A legal challenge has been threatened by campaigners against further seismic blasting in the search areas which…

France's EDF has restarted the 1.5-GW Civaux-2 reactor while delaying bothplanned maintenance and returns elsewhere amid ongoing worker strikes,transparency data showed April 24. EDF further delayed planned return datesfor Gravelines 1 and Blayais 1, where strikes have been ongoing for overfive weeks. The start of maintenance at Cruas 4 was also delayed further,with annual refueling…

Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead tothousands of excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events oftenoccurs in response to an event, with communities learning fast followingunexpectedly impactful events. Using extreme value statistics, here we showwhere regional temperature records are statistically likely to be exceeded,and therefore communities might be more at-risk.…

By David Fraser, The Canadian Press, Tue., April 25, 2023 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asserted that Canada is “veryserious” about developing nuclear technology across the country to meetgrowing power needs, but some members of Parliament are warning thetechnology could be costly and ineffective. A Liberal MP is among the critics who say Ottawa is looking…

**Nuclear Siting** Frozen in aspic — planning and pragmatism in the siting of nuclear powerstations in Britain. Despite efforts at strategic siting and the problemsposed by changing circumstances — especially the challenges arising outof climate change — the geography of nuclear power infrastructure isstubbornly inflexible, and has barely changed since it was firstestablished over half…

An ambitious reactornconstruction programme aimed at reducing carbon emissions is running into the realities of skilled worker shortages. For 10 years, Gaetan Geoffrayworked as a plasterer and painter, before learning metalwork at a companythat made cranes. Arnaud Dupuy was a policeman. A third colleague at theirfactory in the depths of rural Burgundy used to be…

Pete Wilkinson: (From Feb 2022) Building the Sizewell C plant, whichrequires vast amounts of fresh water, in an area of water scarcity makes nosense. The availability of water is something we barely give a thought to:only ten percent of people consider water shortage to be an environmentalissue, yet without it, it's curtains. According to the…

Next month the Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, is set to visitEmmanuel Macron in Paris. The two countries have a difficult past, with wargiving way to hostility, giving way to a very curious form ofinterdependence. The agenda for the visit looks crowded, with irregularmigration through Algeria dominating the list of the Elysee's priorities.However, unlike previous meetings…

ED. - the picture above is of a NuScale smr design, not Rolls Royce, but the principle is the same. It's not really small, and they know that truly small reactors are not economically viable. New law boosts maximum size of nuclear reactors permitted in Indiana nwi.com Dan Carden, Apr 24, 2023  Gov. Eric Holcomb…