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…
Graham Stuart has called for a public vote on whether a nuclear waste siteshould be built in Holderness amid opposition from some living in the area. 'Beverley and Holderness ' MP said Nuclear Waste Services, the GovernmentAgency which unveiled the waste site proposals last week, should be forcedto make their case directly to the public.…
GE Hitachi awarded nuclear design funding, 30 January 2024 GE Vernova’s nuclear business, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, was on 25January awarded a £33.6 m Future Nuclear Enabling Fund grant from theUK’s Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. The UK government hasambitions for 24 GW of nuclear generation by 2050 to help in providingenergy security for…