How nuclear 'waste' could save your life, plus Nuclear Energy Summit 2024

How nuclear 'waste' could save your life, plus Nuclear Energy Summit 2024

Professor Tim Tinsley prefers not to use the label of nuclear waste, instead referring to "legacy material". And it's not hard to see why, given the projects currently taking place to extract radionuclides from the material for use in pioneering treatments for cancer. It is also providing a new source of power and heat for spacecraft. Tinsley, Professor of Space Nuclear Power at the University of Leicester and Account Director for Space and Radioisotopes at the National Nuclear Laboratory in...

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Norman Foster's symposium speech putting case for nuclear

Norman Foster's symposium speech putting case for nuclear

In this bonus episode, hear the full speech at World Nuclear Symposium in London from internationally renowned architect Lord Norman Foster. In it he says that nuclear's ability to provide a "vast amo...

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The US's historic Hanford site, and accelerated decommissioning

The Hanford site in the US has a history dating back to the 1940s when it was established as part of the Manhattan Project. Plutonium was produced at the site, with the last reactor shut down in 1971....

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Urenco scaling up capacity to meet rising nuclear fuel demand

Urenco scaling up capacity to meet rising nuclear fuel demand

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The UK’s Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria in the North West of England has been operating for nearly seven decades, so probably for longer than any other such facility anywhere. During that time ...

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A decision is expected later this year by the Spanish government on whether to award a three-year reprieve to Almaraz nuclear power plant's units 1 and 2. They are currently scheduled to be shut down ...

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