Tag Archives: Nuclear
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Atomic fission: nuclear delay cools UK-China relations
The British government has put the development of a Chinese-backed nuclear power station on ice, prompting an angry response for Beijing
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Dismantling Trident: the price of peace
The UK parliament is voting on whether to renew Trident, but the cost of decommissioning the UK’s nuclear arsenal would be a tiny fraction of the cost of renewing it.
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Trident: war-gaming the future
The UK parliament will vote this month on whether to renew the country’s nuclear deterrent. To do so would be to take an expensive punt on what kind of security threat the country will face decades down the line
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How secure is the world’s enriched uranium?
There are 24 countries in the world that have more than 1kg of enriched uranium; not all of them are as safe as they could be, and world leaders fear it could end up in the wrong hands.
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Reaction time: wake-up call for nuclear security
World leaders are meeting in Washington to find ways to boost nuclear security, in a bid to prevent highly enriched uranium leaking onto the black market.
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New power assets are fuelling debate
Financing new energy assets for nuclear and low-carbon power generation in the UK is at the centre of political debate, as Olivia Gagan reports
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UK’s nuclear future: look East?
The wheels could be falling off the UK’s plans to build 16 gigawatts of new nuclear generation capacity by 2025 and, as Tim Probert discovers, the country’s best hope for a nuclear future may now lie in East Asia
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Uncertain future for uranium and nuclear amid safety fears
It generates a significant proportion of the world’s electricity supply, but as Chris Johnston writes, uranium also has the power to kill and destroy