Alex Hunt
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December 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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?...
Driver 67 - Car 67 [totp2]
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October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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?...
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A total of 127 different SMR designs have been identified in the new edition of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's SMR Dashboard
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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...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/the...
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...
Big Carl lifts the dome onto second reactor | Hinkley Point C
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July 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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...
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🎙️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...
March 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎙️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...
Learned a lot at Space-Comm Expo today, including the sheer scale of debris circling Earth, courtesy of the European Space Agency
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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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...
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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...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/cab...
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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.
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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...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fir...
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🎙️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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pod...
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....
www.world-nuclear-news.org
February 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🎙️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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pod...
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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.
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www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/che...
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...
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February 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/che...
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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.
January 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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
January 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Wonder what the new logo would look like if Nationwide and NatWest were ever to merge
The long-delayed Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in Normandy in northern France has begun delivering electricity to the grid, EDF has announced.
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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.
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December 21, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fre...
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🧵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 🧪
#medski #academicski #publicpolicy 🧪
indie_SAGE 01.12.2023
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December 18, 2024 at 5:17 AM
🧵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 🧪
#medski #academicski #publicpolicy 🧪
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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...
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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...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/lic...
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Today’s poem is called ‘Meeting Deadlines’.
December 3, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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.
December 2, 2024 at 9:33 PM
BBC News Online's 'Sound of 2004' didn't too badly with their Top 10 of ones to watch.
🎙️ 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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/wha...
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...
www.world-nuclear-news.org
November 29, 2024 at 10:21 PM
🎙️ 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...
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 👇
Fourteen years after beginning its consent-based siting process, Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and the Township of Ignace have been selected as the host communities for Canada's proposed deep geological repository.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/can...
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Canada selects location for used nuclear fuel repository
Fourteen years after beginning its consent-based siting process, Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and the Township of Ignace have been selected as the host communities for Canada's proposed deep geolo...
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November 28, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Big news from Canada, where they've selected an area to host a repository deep underground for used nuclear fuel 👇
🎙️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...
November 24, 2024 at 12:32 PM
🎙️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...
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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?’
November 14, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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?’
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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...
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.'
deadline.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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...
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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...
October 21, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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.
August 30, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Lovely skyline, but wondering how those two full skips (in the foreground) ended up on a floating platform in the middle of the Thames.