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The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest on record, driven byhuman-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weatherevent. Last year was about 1.48C warmer than the long-term average beforehumans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels, the EU's climateservice says. Almost every day since July has seen a new global…
Unplanned outages at Hartlepool nuclear power plant's two 620-MW reactorsare set to last until Feb. 4 and Feb. 6, UK operator EDF Energy said intransparency notes Jan. 8. Production at the County Durham site innortheast England had ceased Jan. 6 "for maintenance activities", EDFEnergy said. No further details were available. The outage at Hartlepoolcompounds UK…
EDF Energy is planning to extend the life of four nuclear power stationsin the UK and step up investment in its British nuclear fleet. The Frenchenergy company said it would make a decision on whether to extend the lifeof the four UK plants with advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) – Torness,Heysham 1 and 2, and Hartlepool…
While Emmanuel Macron continues to affirm his attachment to the atom,Yannick Jadot, Marine Tondelier, Eric Piolle and Sandra Regol are callingon France not to get stuck again in costly and dangerous dependence on thisenergy. At the end of 2023, first in a forum, then in his wishes to theFrench, President Macron reaffirmed his attachment to…
Behind the (somewhat dirty) scenes of nuclear waste processing. Nuclearenergy, even if many call it "clean", produces a lot of waste (and costs"crazy money"). A researcher was able to carry out a survey lastingapproximately one year on two French waste landfill sites. How are thesethings managed? Exclusive interview. “There is no such thing asdecontamination. This…