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GMB members working on the company’s nuclear submarine programme havebegun industrial action. The action comes after 90 per cent of GMB membersat the company supported action if company bosses failed to present a payrise acceptable to union members. Known as ‘work to rule’, theindustrial action will see GMB members applying strict limits to workingoutside of…

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, MAY 01, 2024 Okay, yes, police are currently in the process of violently stomping out political dissent on university campuses across America following multiple statements from President Biden attacking the protesters as “antisemitic” for opposing the genocide he’s been enthusiastically facilitating in Gaza. And okay, fine, bands of right wing thugs are currently going around terrorizing students who don’t align with the&hel...

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,…

  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…

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