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Some bits of good news .  Heroes in pink: Lao midwives supporting rights and saving lives      Zimbabwe launches cholera vaccination to curb the spread.     Wild panda population nearly doubles as China steps up conservation efforts. TOP STORIES.   EDF’s Hinkley Point woes pile pressure on global nuclear push. also at https://nuclear-news.net/2024/02/04/2-a-edfs-hinkley-point-woes-pile-pressure-on-global-nuclear-push/   Nuclear Waste: Changing Conditions May Affect Future Management of Contamination Deposited Abroad During U.S. Cold…

Greta Thunberg’s public order charge dropped as judge criticises policeaction. Court says officers attempted to impose ‘unlawful’ conditionsthat interfered with climate activist’s human rights during protest lastyear.  Telegraph 2nd Feb 2024 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/02/great-thunberg-public-order-charge-thrown-out-judge/  Guardian 2nd Feb 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/02/judge-throws-out-case-against-greta-thunberg-and-other-london-protesters

By DAVID HOWELL David Howell: This is not just a matter of finding the cash to meet theenormous budget overrun. The Chinese payments halt at Hinkley leaves agrowing gap. Love or hate them nowadays, they have already been edged outof the Sizewell plan (they were actually paid £100m to leave), so the verylarge Chinese contribution there…

AI-powered drones are being designed to cut labour costs and boostsecurity at Sellafield. Britain’s nuclear sites could soon be protectedby a “robocop” style police force made up of AI-powered drones equippedwith paint bombs and smoke guns. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority(NDA), which runs high-security nuclear sites such as Sellafield andDounreay, wants to build a robotic police…

 When in 2016 France’s EDF signed up to build Britain’s first newnuclear power plant in two decades, defenders of the costly Hinkley Point Cproject included Emmanuel Macron, then economy minister. “If we believein nuclear power, we have to do Hinkley Point,” France’s now presidenttold a parliamentary enquiry, rejecting some lawmakers’ concerns thatstate-backed EDF, which was…