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The public spending watchdog has said it wants to examine whether Sellafield inCumbria is “managing and prioritising the risks and hazards of the siteeffectively in the short and long term”. It follows growing concern overthe costs of managing the site’s nuclear legacy. An NAO statement said:“Cleaning up the site is a long-term endeavour, likely to…

Britain’s MPs are not paid to be polite. So it must have been with some restraint that the members of the environmental audit committee described the government’s nuclear strategy this week as “lacking clarity”, not least over small modular reactors. Lacking clarity? You can think of better ways to describe the financiallyradioactive shambles, complete with…

Montel. EDF's recent setbacks in its project to build two new generation EPR reactors in the United Kingdom darken the prospects for the revival of nuclear power in Europe, experts told Montel. Montel) EDF's recent setbacks in its project to build two new generation EPR reactors in the United Kingdom darken the prospects for the…

I was banned from Mastodon because I posted a link to an article supporting humanitarian aid to Gaza.Now I have been banned from one part of Reddit ( r/worldnews) for posting this link https://www.unz.com/.../over-a-million-palestinians-are.../ I can still post to other parts of Reddit.

 Why the first six EPR2s will cost much more than the 52 billion eurosinitially planned by EDF. During a hearing in the Senate, the executivedirector of EDF's new nuclear projects, Xavier Ursat, indicated that thefirst six EPR2s will cost more than the 52 billion euros announced in 2021.A first slippage in costs including the new…

Push for funding comes weeks after Hinkley Point C costs were revised up to £46bn Jonathan Leake, 13 February 2024  British taxpayers have been asked to stump up cash to fund nuclear powerplants being built in the UK by the French energy giant EDF. Bruno LeMaire, France’s finance minister, said on Tuesday he would be…

JUAN COLE, 02/14/2024 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The South African government lodged an urgent complaint on Monday at the International Court of Justice against the plan announced by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to attack Rafah in southern Gaza, where 1.4 million people, most of them refugees from elsewhere, have been pushed by the…

On February 9, 2024, the ICJ announced that from February 19-26 it will hold public hearings on the request for an Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. Fifty-two States and three international organizations have expressed their intention to participate in the oral…

 The first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species. report waslaunched today by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Speciesof Wild Animals (CMS), a UN biodiversity treaty, at the opening of a majorUN wildlife conservation conference (CMS COP14). The landmark reportreveals: While some migratory species listed under CMS are improving,nearly half (44 per cent) are…

The British government is seeking to take control of a key site in Walesearmarked for a nuclear power plant as part of wider plans to revampnuclear technology for the UK. State-owned Great British Nuclear is inearly-stage discussions with Hitachi, owner of the land in Wylfa inAnglesey, an island off north Wales, to buy the site…