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Curtailing comes after repeated delays to an ongoing government design competition Rolls-Royce has scaled back plans to build two new factories for its smallmodular reactor (SMR) programme in the UK, following delays to a governmentdesign competition. The FTSE 100 company had originally proposed onefactory to make heavy pressure vessels for its SMRs and another to…

Allan Dorans , SNP MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock: Workers at the Dounreay nuclear power complex on Scotland's north coast plan strike actionnext month which will further delay the decommissioning of a plant whichstarted operating in 1955. The Prospect, Unite and GMB unions are allinvolved. The GMB, the main union for nuclear energy workers,…

When the Elko County Emergency Operations Center put in a call March 31 to their local University of Nevada, Reno Extension office saying they needed face masks, Extension’s 4-H youth and their families swung into action, making masks not only for the Operations Center, but also for their local School District nutrition services workers who are hel

  https://www.euronews.com/video/2024/04/27/watch-protesters-in-taiwan-demand-closure-of-nuclear-power-plants Protesters in Taiwan demand closure of nuclear power plants. Thedemonstration was against legislators extending the use of Maanshan NuclearPower Plant, also known as the “Third Nuclear Powerplant.” Protestorsbraved the rain dressed in coats and straw hats, as speakers played thenuclear leak alarm message. Taiwan currently has four nuclear power plants,with the first and second in&...

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An end of era looks set to be marked at a seaside holiday park that hasattracted hundreds of thousands of guests over the past 70 years. SizewellC is set to take over the whole of Pontins Pakefield Holiday Village inLowestoft from January next year. This means that the site is set to closeto the public…

 The former rail chief now minding the (construction) gap at Sizewell. RobHolden, chairman of the Suffolk nuclear plant, says the increasing timebetween the start of construction at Hinkley Point and spades in the groundat Sizewell is a worry. The delays and swelling cost of building HinkleyPoint C, Britain’s first new nuclear power plant in more…

The terrible truth is that nobody knows how much this will cost. 25th April  What does it cost, and how many jobs does it actually create? This isespecially important now with the next generation of nuclear-poweredsubmarines, the “Dreadnought” class, starting construction. When the UK Government announced the programme to replace the current Valiant classboats, the…