Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has requested thedeadline for its opinion on Posiva Oy's operating licence application forthe world's first used fuel repository to be extended until the end of2024. In September last year, it said it would not complete its review bythe end of 2023 as originally planned. Radioactive waste management companyPosiva…
– Dr Richard Dixon. The UK Government is trying to create the impression that it’s all go for nuclear. It isn’t.The UK's nuclear enthusiasts have been on another PR offensive, withannouncements of new reactors and possible life extensions to old reactors. All of it denying the reality that nuclear is much too slow to build andmuch…
The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hourdue to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than waspreviously thought. Some scientists are concerned that this additionalsource of freshwater pouring into the north Atlantic might mean a collapseof the ocean currents called the Atlantic meridional…
The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities are keen to assist University of Sussex academics in exposing the links to the military that were revealed in the recent UK Government’s launch of a ‘Roadmap’ for the civil nuclear sector (11 January 2024).[1] In the public interest, Andy Stirling, Professor of Science and Technology Policy, and Research…
Democracy Now. JANUARY 17, 2024 We hear from Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous, whose recent article for The Intercept documents how Israel bombed two Al Jazeera journalists in mid-December while they were accompanying rescue workers, seriously injuring both. But while the network’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh managed to get to an ambulance nearby, his cameraman Samer Abudaqa…