Posted by Wade Allison on 20 May 2025 in Newsletters
Grid Blackout in Spain/Portugal — Two debates in Parliament — More countries turn to nuclear, but not Australia yet — The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) — SONE members visit to Springfields, 23rd Sep 2025 — India and China expansion — Nuclear workforce — EDF Chairman and CEO — District heating in Finland — Dutch-UK collaboration — Steel tomorrow — Fusion technology future.
Posted by Wade Allison on 21 April 2025 in Newsletters
SONE visit to Springfields — Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm — GBN SMR news — News from Kazakhstan and Plymouth — Uranium ore availability and US tariffs — US Secretary for Energy and SMR funding — International Regulation initiatives from UK — An interview on Youtube — News from Moltex — IAEA promotes food irradiation.
Posted by Wade Allison on 27 March 2025 in Newsletters
Speed-bumps slow the nuclear revolution — “Actinide to Zeta” — Choice of small reactor designs — All change at EDF — Nuclear policy for England & Wales — Renewables poor performance — Czech investment in RR SMR — UK Regulations to be rolled back — Teeside – Community Nuclear Power — Change of heart at World Bank — Korea nuclear green bonds — Progress on marine nuclear power — News on fuel — Plutonium — Comment on E=mc² — Fusion
Posted by Paul Spare on 24 March 2025 in Articles
Electricity has increased in importance in recent years, but neither wind nor solar power can supply power continuously.
Posted by Wade Allison on 20 February 2025 in Newsletters
A new Patron for SONE, Chris Cockcroft — Reflections on UK Nuclear Power, by Philip Greatorex — Insurance — UK Plutonium for disposal? — News from America — New Nuclear for Maritime — Wind, fire and batteries — Urenco — UK reduces hurdles
Posted by Christopher Cockcroft on 12 February 2025 in Articles
A unique view of the history of Nuclear Energy by Christopher Cockcroft, son of Sir John Cockcroft: • 'My understanding of what was going did not begin until I was ten when my father and Ernest Walton were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics.' • 'Albert Einstein’s E=mc² which was proved by my father and Ernest Walton.'
Posted by Philip Greatorex on 31 January 2025 in Articles
Back in 1956 a nuclear energy ideal was created across society founded on scientific and economic reasoning. Despite several setbacks, that ideal has endured in the UK, due in no small part to the extensive educational and public outreach activities throughout the latter half of the last century. That work continues, but not at anything like the same level.
Posted by Wade Allison on 13 January 2025 in Newsletters
Uranium extraction from seawater, by Paul Spare — Waste Vitrification at Sellafield — Nuclear energy is still the number 1 source of electricity in the European Union in 2024 — Russian plans in the Arctic — Lawsuit challenges NRC on SMR regulation — Waste recycling regulation in USA — “The Best of 2024” according to the The Ecomodernist Society of North America.
Posted by Wade Allison on 27 December 2024 in Newsletters
Happy New Year 2025 — Life extensions announced for four UK AGR plants — Flamanville 3 connected to the grid — District heating in Finland — German restart — Scandinavian energy news — Virginia Crosbie, Trudy Harrison and Nuclear Capital LLP — The NDA, Decommissioning? — Radon Therapy in Tajikistan — Greens go for nuclear in Ontario.
Posted by Wade Allison on 27 December 2024 in Articles
Use of a nuclear weapon would release vast quantities of energy and radiation. Although the blast and fire would destroy buildings and life within a few miles, the radioactivity and radiation would have a much smaller and limited effect. This is confirmed by all available evidence and popular experience. However, it is not what has been supposed for the past 70 years.
Posted by Wade Allison on 25 November 2024 in Newsletters
SONE AGM, new Patrons and panel discussion — Capenhurst Visit — Other methods of enrichment, a note — The road to net zero: renewables and nuclear working together — A recent posting on LinkedIn by Wade Allison — New links and posts in support of nuclear energy.
Posted by Wade Allison on 1 October 2024 in Newsletters
Banking sector gets the message – Nuclear shipping comment by Neville – UK policy from the Labour Party – Great British Nuclear narrows SMR Competition – Three Mile Island & Microsoft – Negative solar energy prices – Swedish Deputy PM emphasises science over politics – Fusion in perspective – Future nuclear plants in Russia – Heat in Finland – Lead cooled SMRs – Fuel production at Springfields – Fukushima, recall of an early visit to combat fear.
Posted by Wade Allison on 26 August 2024 in Newsletters
UK SMR contestants — UK & Denmark nuclear shipping regulation — What if Germany had invested in nuclear? — IAEA welcomes thirty nuclear newcomers and SMR interests — China approves 11 new reactors — In the USA nuclear is omitted from Democratic electoral case — Disposable Power Plants — Texas electrical power on 20th August — Finnish SMR designed to produce heat, not electricity — India ramps up nuclear plants — Enrichment in UK and a podcast with Urenco — Energy sources top trumps — A poster published by ResearchFeatures.
Posted by Wade Allison on 25 August 2024 in Articles
Professor Wade Allison shows that nuclear energy can provide a viable, safe, and environmental replacement for fossil fuels and renewables.
Posted by Ben and Marie Zabell on 19 August 2024 in Articles
Ben and Marie Zabell are both Imperial College graduates, and have created a series of info cards to simplify the realities of each currently known energy source.
Posted by Wade Allison on 19 July 2024 in Newsletters
Climate Challenge for the New Government — AGM and provisional site visit — Some in Australia look to UK — Italy invests in nuclear education — SMR submissions to Great British Nuclear — Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power wins Czech contest — USA: the ADVANCE Act — Data centres and their growing hunger — Turkey and the UK — History Corner.
