By David Fraser, The Canadian Press, Tue., April 25, 2023 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asserted that Canada is “veryserious” about developing nuclear technology across the country to meetgrowing power needs, but some members of Parliament are warning thetechnology could be costly and ineffective. A Liberal MP is among the critics who say Ottawa is looking…
Nuclear Siting Frozen in aspic planning and pragmatism in the siting of nuclear powerstations in Britain. Despite efforts at strategic siting and the problemsposed by changing circumstances especially the challenges arising outof climate change the geography of nuclear power infrastructure isstubbornly inflexible, and has barely changed since it was firstestablished over half…
An ambitious reactornconstruction programme aimed at reducing carbon emissions is running into the realities of skilled worker shortages. For 10 years, Gaetan Geoffrayworked as a plasterer and painter, before learning metalwork at a companythat made cranes. Arnaud Dupuy was a policeman. A third colleague at theirfactory in the depths of rural Burgundy used to be…
Pete Wilkinson: (From Feb 2022) Building the Sizewell C plant, whichrequires vast amounts of fresh water, in an area of water scarcity makes nosense. The availability of water is something we barely give a thought to:only ten percent of people consider water shortage to be an environmentalissue, yet without it, it's curtains. According to the…
Next month the Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, is set to visitEmmanuel Macron in Paris. The two countries have a difficult past, with wargiving way to hostility, giving way to a very curious form ofinterdependence. The agenda for the visit looks crowded, with irregularmigration through Algeria dominating the list of the Elysee's priorities.However, unlike previous meetings…