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Driver 67 - Car 67 [totp2] YouTube video by WiggyVideos2

If it's possible to be a one-hit wonder twice, there can't be many currently better placed than Car 67's Driver 6-7: youtu.be/tGwYPd6ajTk?...

There are now 127 different SMR designs, finds NEA report The latest edition of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's Small Modular Reactor Dashboard reports growing interest around the world with 51 SMR designs involved in pre-licensing or licensing processe...

A total of 127 different SMR designs have been identified in the new edition of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's SMR Dashboard
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/the...

Big Carl lifts the dome onto second reactor | Hinkley Point C YouTube video by EDF 🇬🇧

The dome is being lifted by 'Big Carl' into place on Hinckley Point C's second reactor. It's being live-streamed on EDF's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/GT-nRCh...

🎙️Nuclear power plants produce medical isotopes that diagnose and save lives, a true 'hidden gem' as James Scongack explains in the latest WNN podcast: world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pod...

Pulsar Fusion unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept for space travel The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time to Pluto to about four years, the UK's Pulsar Fusion says. ;

There was also this news from Pulsar Fusion - www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pul...

Learned a lot at Space-Comm Expo today, including the sheer scale of debris circling Earth, courtesy of the European Space Agency

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Cabinet moves to reverse Italy's anti-nuclear stance Italy's Council of Ministers has approved a draft law calling for the government to adopt a series of legislative decrees to create the legal framework for the reintroduction of nuclear power, whi...

Italy's Council of Ministers has approved a draft law calling for the government to adopt a series of legislative decrees to create the legal framework for the reintroduction of nuclear power, which was phased out following a referendum in 1987.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/cab...

First Light Fusion switches strategy, drops plans to develop power plant The UK's First Light Fusion is to focus on commercial partnerships with other fusion companies who want to use its amplifier technology, as well as with non-fusion applications such as N...

First Light Fusion switches strategy, drops plans to develop power plant - the UK company will instead focus on commercial partnerships using its tech with other fusion companies, and also exploring non-fusion applications, such as with NASA.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fir...

Podcast: India's plans for large-scale nuclear energy expansion India is planning to expand nuclear capacity from 7 GW to 100 GW by 2047, with legislative changes, international partnerships and development of indigenous technology all set to play their part....

🎙️Podcast: India is planning to expand nuclear capacity from 7 GW to 100 GW by 2047, with legislative changes, international partnerships and development of indigenous technology all set to play their part.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pod...

Chernobyl's protective shelter damaged 'by drone strike' International Atomic Energy Agency staff at the Chernobyl site say "radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable" after a drone was reported to have struck the roof of t...

International Atomic Energy Agency staff at Chernobyl say "radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable" after a drone was reported to have struck the roof of the shelter built over the remains of the reactor destroyed in the 1986 accident.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/che...

Tamworth goalkeeper, whose partner gave birth last night, is asked if he’s now going to take some paternity leave and “put his feet up”, in one of the least wise questions asked on TV for a while.

Wonder what the new logo would look like if Nationwide and NatWest were ever to merge

France's Flamanville EPR starts supplying power The long-delayed Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in Normandy in northern France has begun delivering electricity to the grid, EDF announced. ;

The long-delayed Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in Normandy in northern France has begun delivering electricity to the grid, EDF has announced.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fre...

indie_SAGE 01.12.2023 YouTube video by indie_SAGE

🧵Just over a year ago I tuned into the last of the Friday briefings from @independentsage.bsky.social (I thoroughly recommend you watch it), as it reflects on the role of scientists in helping shape the public's understanding of publicly funded science.
#medski #academicski #publicpolicy 🧪

Licensing of Finnish repository further delayed Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has been given another one-year extension to complete its review of Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used nu...

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has been given another one-year extension to complete its review of Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used nuclear fuel repository.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/lic...

Meeting Deadlines   I always meet my deadlines. I don’t even have to try – They sneak up on me from nowhere, Tap my shoulder and say hi.   It’s you! I cry. So how are you? I did not think you’d come so soon. Can’t stop now but why don’t we meet Next Tuesday afternoon?   Or, better still, two weeks from now? My deadline shrugs and sighs. A fortnight on, we meet again, Much to my surprise. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Meeting Deadlines’.

BBC News Online's 'Sound of 2004' didn't too badly with their Top 10 of ones to watch.

Podcast: What happened with nuclear energy at COP29? Did the COP29 climate conference achieve its goals? What role did nuclear energy play in the event? Why was so much focus already turning to COP30, which is due to take place in Br...

🎙️ Podcast: What were the goals of #COP29 and were they achieved? What role did nuclear energy play in the event? Why was focus already turning to next year's COP30? Just some of questions covered by @jonathancobb.bsky.social - listen (or read) here:
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/wha...

Big news from Canada, where they've selected an area to host a repository deep underground for used nuclear fuel 👇

You can also read his views in more detail in the recently published book: More and More and More, An all-Consuming History of Energy: www.penguin.co.uk/authors/3063...

🎙️Earlier this year Jean-Baptiste Fressoz explained on the WNN podcast why he thinks the idea of energy transitions is a simplistic one - more wood consumed after 'switch' to coal, more coal after 'switch' to oil etc. You can listen here: www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/les...

The key graf from @duncanrobinson.bsky.social. Graduate taxes on people making the minimum wage… The condition in the UK’s conditional repayment system is now simply ‘do you have a full-time job?’

Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Shuts TV Production Arm To Focus On Podcasts Goalhanger is closing its TV production arm to focus on podcasts including 'The Rest Is History' and 'The Rest Is Entertainment.'

Sign of the times stuff, this: Gary Lineker's production company is shutting its TV arm to focus on podcasts. Tony Pastor, Lineker's business partner, tells me that telly is "challenged" and Goalhanger is not beholden to the whims of commissioners in audio. deadline.com/2024/11/gary...

Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/i...

Lovely skyline, but wondering how those two full skips (in the foreground) ended up on a floating platform in the middle of the Thames.

Japan demonstrates floating seismic isolation system for SMRs
www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Jap...

The UK's Hinkley Point C #nuclear power plant is now unlikely to be operational before 2030, with the overall cost revised to between GBP31 to GBP34 billion (in 2015 prices), EDF has said: tinyurl.com/2s47jpns

Nuclear battery - a Chinese firm says it is aiming for mass market production of a miniature atomic energy battery which can generate electricity for 50 years without charging or maintenance
www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuc...