CNR is leading a consortium in the development of “OmbrièresPHotovoltaïquE grand LIneAire”, a solar shading project along theViaRhôna cycling route in southern France's Caderousse department,alongside the Rhône River. The pilot project aims to evaluate theintegration of a PV facility into the landscape and assess its energyperformance. The project partners include French cable supplier Nexans,Schneider Electric,…
The Government has rejected callsfor Chinese state-linked firms to be excluded entirely from Britain’snuclear sector. China will not be permanently barred from investing inBritain’s nuclear energy despite posing a “threat to our open anddemocratic way of life”, the Government has said. Ministers were accusedof a “patronising” and “misleading” approach by seniorConservatives after ruling out a…
A combination of tremendous heroism, good fortune and the will ofGod” – will this be the future of safety at a nuclear-armed Lakenheath?With evidence mounting that the United States Air Force intends to returnnuclear weapons to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, the Nuclear Free LocalAuthorities have written to emergency planners in the county, and on theirrecommendation…
1 Earth’s life support systems have been so damaged that the planet is“well outside the safe operating space for humanity”, scientists havewarned. Their assessment found that six out of nine “planetaryboundaries” had been broken because of human-caused pollution anddestruction of the natural world. The planetary boundaries are the limitsof key global systems – such as…
Five years after a small solar farm was built at the site, Ukraine hasunveiled plans to develop a potentially huge wind power plant in theChernobyl exclusion zone - the site of the worst nuclear power plantdisaster in world history. Der Spiegel reports that a declaration of intentwas signed this week between German-based developer Notus Energy,…