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Fish clogging in cooling tunnels threatens power station safety

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Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station in Somerset, and the proposed construction site of Hinkley Point C, in February 2016 (image credit: jgolby / Shutterstock.com). This technology, developed by Fish Guidance Systems, is presented as best practice and is already installed at a nuclear power station in Belgium.

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European scientists group urges ban on new natural gas boilers

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“The coming decade is decisive for keeping climate change in check, but fusion is still in its infancy, and neither CCS nor new nuclear plants based on current or small modular reactor technology can be built quickly enough.

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No, the Fukushima water release is not going to kill the Pacific Ocean

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TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 Based on our collective professional experience in nuclear science and nuclear power, we have reached the same conclusion. Tritium has a half-life of 12.3

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

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Shell also financed and seconded staff to industry-backed energy research initiatives throughout the 1970s that emphasized uncertainties in climate science, or made unrealistic suggestions that technological solutions could be found to offset growing emissions from burning fossil fuels.