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South East Holderness' Cllr Lyn Healing and Cllr Sean McMaster said the area had already experienced creeping industrialisation in recent years Hull Live,   Joseph Gerrard, Local Democracy Reporter, 10 Feb 24 Local politicians have called for East Riding Council to walk away from talks on proposals for a site to house radioactive nuclear waste deep beneath…

 Energy Intelligence Group, Fri, Feb 9, 2024, Grace Symes, London As France faces two major nuclear efforts — the refurbishment and life extension of EDF's domestic operating fleet and a major nuclear newbuild program — there are already signs that the country's nuclear workforce is struggling to keep up. With 10-year safety reviews, or decennial visits (DVs),…

MURIEL BOSELLI, Paris, France, 08 Feb 2024 19:48 (Montel) The latest setbacks at the UK’s new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant have cast a shadow over Europe's nuclear revival, experts told Montel, with one former EDF executive saying France’s nuclear industry was “on a slow descent to hell”. A feud between Paris and London over who…

Nuclear power officially labelled as ‘strategic’ for EU’s decarbonisation, By Paul Messad | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Anne-Sophie Gayet, 7 Feb 24 The Council of EU member states and the European Parliament agreed on Tuesday (6 February) to label nuclear power as a strategic technology for the EU’s decarbonisation, following months of intense negotiations in Brussels over the Net-Zero Industry Act…

Proactive, Philip Whiterow,  08 Feb 2024 Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (LSE:RR.)'s mini-nuclear plans have seemingly suffered a setback with the UK’s first privately funded station to use reactors built by Westinghouse. The US group said it signed an agreement with Community Nuclear Power to install four AP300 small modular reactors (SMRs) at the North Teesside project to generate up to 1.5 gigawatts…

The global average temperature in January 2024 was 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels for the month, meaning the planet has breached the 1.5°C benchmark for the past 12 months New Scientist 8th Feb 2024 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2416231-hottest-january-on-record-sees-the-world-reach-1-7c-warming-mark

 Last week, Georgia Power revealed the latest delay to the expansion ofPlant Vogtle, a nuclear power station near Augusta which contains the firstnew reactors built entirely from scratch in the US for more than threedecades. The company said unit 4 of the plant would not begin generatingpower before the end of March due to the…

This is going too far in trivializing risk. And this is not limited to “acceptability” which seems to be ASN’s major concern, but to the risks of such “mixed” installations.a serious accident situation (AZF, Lubrizol) could damage the SMR unit and transform the accident into a disaster. Bernard Laponche,  Doctor of Science in Nuclear Reactor…

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi saidhe would visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Russian-occupiedUkraine today to see if it can be run with a reduced number of staff andwhether its years-old uranium fuel is safe. Russia gained control ofEurope’s largest nuclear power plant after launching a full-scaleinvasion of Ukraine in early 2022, and…

A CAMPAIGNER group opposing new nuclear power in Bradwell-on-Sea said theyare “deeply concerned” following comments made by an MP. According tothe Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG), former deputy primeminister Dr Thérèse Coffey showed support for Bradwell as a “logical”landfall site for a substation and converter linking East Anglian offshorewind farms to the on-land national…