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**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…

Gong Zhe  https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-04-23/Japan-hopes-to-start-discharging-Fukushima-nuclear-wastewater-in-July-1jfbTfpbNvy/index.html Japan is hoping to start discharging radioactive waste water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean in July. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) told Kyoto News on Saturday that the excavator is near the exit of the tunnel located one-kilometer offshore. The 1,030-meter tunnel is used to discharge the treated…

 Renewable energy has seen considerablegrowth in recent years, but there is a long way to go to achieve a cleanenergy future that averts the worst effects of the climate crisis. Thewindow is quickly closing on our ability to meet the goal of the 2015 Parisclimate agreement: keeping global temperature rise well below two degreesCelsius by…

West scrambles as Putin reveals his energy war trump card. Kremlin hasspread its tentacles through the US and Europe – and countries arestruggling to fight back. In an effort to punish Vladimir Putin, westerngovernments have hit Russia’s energy industry with a barrage of punishingsanctions since his invasion of Ukraine. But one sector has conspicuouslyescaped their…

By Hyonhee Shin, SEOUL, April 24 (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol set off on Monday for the for the United States and a summit with President Joe Biden at a time of rare questioning in South Korea of an alliance that has guaranteed its security for decades. .............. as North Korea races ahead…

April 24, 2023  https://onefiniteplanet.org/wp/spacex-should-we-colonise-the-solar-system/  heard an on-air debate about the merits of the program in light of the explosion of the SpaceX starship rocket on April 20th. Viewpoints were of course varied. They included the “we have this beautiful planet already and it makes no sense to be spending so much to go elsewhere” and…