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Nuclear defence workers to strike over pay

Daisy Stephens & PA Media – BBC News, Thu, 11 January 2024

Workers at a nuclear warhead factory are set to strike in a dispute over pay, their union has announced.

Members of Prospect at Berkshire-based Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) will walk out for 24 hours on 24 January, after two months of other forms of industrial action.

The company is facing “a recruitment and retention crisis” and risks “being unable to fulfil its critical role in safeguarding our national security” if pay is not improved, Prospect general secretary Mike Clancy warned. ……………………………………more https://au.news.yahoo.com/nuclear-defence-workers-strike-over-150520892.html

January 11, 2024 Posted by | employment, UK | Leave a comment

UK Government unveils biggest nuclear expansion in 70 years

Jemma Dempsey – BBC News, Thu, 11 January 2024

The government hopes to boost the nuclear power industry with the biggest expansion of the sector in 70 years.

A new large scale nuclear plant would quadruple supplies by 2050, which the government claims would lower bills and improve energy security.

It also said its £300m ($382.6m) nuclear fuel programme would reduce reliance on overseas supply.

But the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) said all clean energy needed fast-tracking.

Nuclear power currently provides around 15% of the UK’s electricity but many of the country’s aging reactors are due to be decommissioned over the next decade.

The government’s Civil Nuclear Roadmap is intended to bolster the UK’s energy independence by exploring a new site for another nuclear power station of the size and scale of the £30bn plants under construction at Hinkley Point in Somerset and committed to Sizewell in Suffolk.

Industry sources have told the BBC the leading candidates would include Wylfa in Anglesea or Moorside in Cumbria.

“Dragging their feet”

But progress is could be slow – from planning to “power on” can take nearly 20 years. Consultations for Sizewell took 10 years alone and building work there is yet to start, because of ongoing protests…………………………………………………………………  https://au.news.yahoo.com/government-unveils-biggest-nuclear-expansion-013230324.html

January 11, 2024 Posted by | politics, UK | Leave a comment

The Secret of Three Bullets: How New Nuclear Weapons Are Back on Battlefields

By Maurizo Torrealta and Emilio Del Giudice,  https://www.everand.com/book/237566805/The-Secret-of-Three-Bullets-How-New-Nuclear-Weapons-Are-Back-on-Battlefields?fbclid=IwAR39ToNaCLpVdrlV3tXJrDSciInSL1nTddpo954Lkoq66ZTgBieDzy_Z390

About this ebook

Four journalists found themselves traveling around the world with the aim of finding answers to some questions: Why was valid research into room-temperature fusion deliberately ignored? Why was enriched uranium found in a crater caused by a bomb in Khiam, Southern Lebanon? Why do depleted uranium bullets produce a temperature of 4000°C? Why are there traces of other radioactive elements in those bullets? How do the new bombs dropped on Gaza work, bombs that are able to amputate people’s legs while leaving no trace of metal fragments? The answers to these questions are linked to one another by a secret that has been kept hidden for more than 20 years: a discovery of a process in physics that has enabled the production of nuclear bombs the size of a bullet. Based on facts, The Secret of the Three Bullets is a scientific spy story that tells in fiction the reality behind cold fusion and its use on the battlefield today.

January 11, 2024 Posted by | resources - print | Leave a comment

Nuclear technology: the shady beginnings and the uncertain future

ABC RN, Broadcast Mon 8 Jan 2024,  https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/nuclear-technology-history-and-future/102960302?fbclid=IwAR2QQafugR_2Vy3Est_CdP4MVvA6gu7g-nypcNFKhe5ixGEX8VCdTgrJpEM

The history and development of the nuclear industry is shrouded in secrecy and contradictions. And its future is throwing up more questions than answers.

A scientist, a historian and a poet consider the economic, scientific and social realities of nuclear technology.

They discuss how the lessons from the past might shape an uncertain future, and the possible consequences of playing God.

Nuclear Fallout was presented at the Brisbane Writers Festival. May 10, 2023

Original broadcast on July 6, 2023.

Speakers

Associate Professor Elizabeth Tynan

Coordinator of the professional development program at the James Cook University Graduate Research School

Author of The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s Forgotten Atomic Tests in Australia, NewSouth Publishing, May 2022

Shastra Deo

Poet and writer; Author of The Exclusion Zone, UQP 2023

Ian Lowe

Environmental scientist, Emeritus professor at Griffith University,

Ashley Hay (host)

Novelist and essayist, former editor of Griffith Review, editorial consultant for the Climate Justice Observatory

January 11, 2024 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

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