Tag Archives: UK

The Story Of The Jet That Would Have Delivered South Africa’s Nuclear Bomb via The Drive

Posted on 2021/01/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The British-made Buccaneer strike aircraft was adapted to carry apartheid-era South Africa’s guided nuclear bomb. BY THOMAS NEWDICK South Africa, an international pariah for much of the Cold War due to its apartheid policy, remains the only country to have developed … Continue reading →

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UK Bishops hail Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty as historic milestone via Vatican News

Posted on 2021/01/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Vatican News staff reporter On Friday, 22 January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) comes into force. Road to ratification This Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons. … Continue reading →

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US Nuclear Site Cleanup Underfunded By Up To $70 Billion via CleanTechnica

Posted on 2020/12/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

by Michael Barnard  Headlines out of the UK are pointing out the horrible state of affairs for nuclear generation decommissioning after a committee of Members of Parliament that the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority really doesn’t have a handle on the 17 sites, … Continue reading →

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Ditch Nuclear And Save $860 Million With Grid Flexibility, U.K. Told via Forbes

Posted on 2020/12/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

David Vetter The U.K. could save money, reduce the risk of blackouts and more quickly achieve its carbon-cutting goals by abandoning plans to build more nuclear power facilities and instead invest in a flexible electricity grid, new analysis has found. … Continue reading →

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Western Europe cools on plans for nuclear power via Climate News Network

Posted on 2020/11/27 by nfield

By Paul Dorfman As more reactors face closure, governments in Europe may prefer renewable energy to replace nuclear power. LONDON, 25 November, 2020 – News that two more reactors in the United Kingdom are to shut down on safety grounds earlier than planned … Continue reading →

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Why we should oppose nuclear power via Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Posted on 2020/11/24 by nfield

Last Wednesday, Boris Johnson announced £525 million support for new nuclear power. In the coming weeks, he is expected to decide whether to approve a major new nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk. In this guest blog, CND Vice-President … Continue reading →

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Church leaders urge UK government to sign UN anti-nuclear treaty via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/11/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Archbishops and bishops express ‘much regret’ in letter at refusal to join international peace accord The leadership of the Church of England is calling on the UK government to stand with 50 other nations in signing a historic international treaty banning … Continue reading →

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Rolls Royce plans 16 mini-nuclear plants for UK via BBC

Posted on 2020/11/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Justin Rowlatt A consortium led by Rolls Royce has announced plans to build up to 16 mini-nuclear plants in the UK. It says the project will create 6,000 new jobs in the Midlands and the North of England over … Continue reading →

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Japan to resume accepting nuclear waste from UK via NHK World

Posted on 2020/11/09 by nfield

The operator of a storage facility in northern Japan is making arrangements with power companies to resume accepting shipments of highly radioactive nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessed in Britain. NHK has learned that Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited has started … Continue reading →

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The UK’s nuclear waste could be buried underground in Cumbria via NewScientist

Posted on 2020/11/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By  Adam Vaughan A long-running search to find a site for an underground nuclear waste store in the UK has received a boost today as a community in north-west England took the first formal step towards hosting the £12 billion facility. Two years ago, … Continue reading →

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