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.
Posted by Wade Allison on 18 June 2024 in Newsletters
Elections and nuclear energy — Climate change in reverse — UK SMR interests — New Nuclear in Maritime — Breakthrough? — Norway’s nuclear plans — Poland approves Rolls-Royce SMRs — Interconnectors fail to make friends — Calder Hall Booklet 1961.
Posted by Wade Allison on 18 June 2024 in Articles
A short summary delivered to the New Nuclear for Maritime Summit, London, 13 June 2024
Posted by Paul Spare on 17 June 2024 in Articles
Iceland has been in the news several times in recent months as volcanic eruptions have forced the evacuation of the town of Grindavik and threatened the electricity generation system. This threat continues, with lava flows from the vent now two miles long. In recent years, unrelated volcanic activity elsewhere in Iceland has caused entirely different problems.
Posted by Wade Allison on 29 May 2024 in Newsletters
Nuclear Skills — Nuclear fuel developments in UK — Nuclear safety: a disagreement with the Director General of the IAEA — Activity at Sheffield — Sizewell, Wylfa and Teesside — Nuclear developments around the world — More on Sellafield
Posted by Wade Allison on 20 April 2024 in Articles
A critical assessment of the LNT model, as discussed in SONE Newsletter 296, April 2024
Posted by Wade Allison on 20 April 2024 in Newsletters
An analogy with bridges and ferries — Radiological protection: science confronts the LNT Model — Stories of nuclear plant closures in New York and elsewhere in USA — Europe’s Energy Blunders: Lessons from IEA Chief — Current enthusiasm for new nuclear going critical — Nuclear news from a number of countries that caught my eye — “New Nuclear is HOT”, a new book by Robert Hargraves.
Posted by Wade Allison on 27 March 2024 in Newsletters
Nuclear Energy Declaration Adopted in Brussels — Nuclear closure was hailed as a green win, then emissions went up — The Science Museum is looking forwards — Oppenheimer conclusion — Six early nuclear reactor films digitized — Austria and Nuclear Power — Regulations: cooperation between UK ONR, US NRC and CNSC — British Industry is busy, at home and abroad! — Pressure for US regulatory changes.
