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Why are nuclear power projects so challenging? Increasing nuclear energycapacity is not easy. Projects across the globe have been fraught withdelays and budget overruns, with the Financial Times revealing last weekthat France is pressing the UK to help fill budget shortfalls at theHinkley Point C project in England, being built by EDF. The International Energy Agency…

By Andrew Jones. Space, 3 Feb 24 1The project aims to get a reactor up and running on the moon in the early 2030s. NASA is wrapping up the design phase of a project to develop concepts for a small, electricity-generating nuclear fission reactor for use on the moon..... NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced contracts to…

COMMENT Isn't "challenge" a lovely word? Conjures up pictures of a tennis match, or some exciting venture. It's the word they use when they mean something more like "overwhelming frightening costs" " "worrying safety and proliferation risks", awful unsolved problem of toxic wastes"  Is this nuclear power’s moment? Many challenges stand in the way of a‘nuclear…

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost its immediateback-up 750 kV power supply to the reactor units for several hours duringthe week of 15 January. This was the latest incident underlining persistentnuclear safety and security risks at the site, director general RafaelMariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on 19 Januaryduring its Update…

Https://www.youtube.com/embed/aLBrP084X5Y?si=AASh_vq4np8-7-_U By Diego Ramos and Max Jones / ScheerPost Staff Writers1 31 Jan 24,  https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/31/will-ai-warfare-usher-in-a-massive-expansion-of-the-surveillance-state-w-stavroula-pabst/ he use of AI weaponry has become increasingly common and normalized, with its use in conflicts such as Gaza and Ukraine, without almost any public debate. This has allowed its implementation into military practice to be ushered in under the noses…