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Unproven technology won investment from power-hungry AIhyperscalers but has yet to deliver consistent revenues The Financial Times, .Ramsay Hodgson in London, 19 Aug 26,https://www.ft.com/content/a2f0e0f8-9350-4124-af77-62219e77e777 Short sellers have reaped large profits from betting against small modular nuclear reactor companies, as the collapse of the “hype cycle” that had sent their share…
Burning waste or playing with fire? Waste management considerations for non-traditional reactors https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2018.1507791, Lindsay Krall &Allison Macfarlane, 31 Aug 18 ABSTRACT Nuclear energy-producing nations are almost universally experiencing delays in the commissioning of the geologic repositories needed for the long-term isolation of spent fuel and…
Plans to dispose of high-level nuclear waste over the longterm remain uncertain. Plans to deal with nuclear waste must be considered by the new energy secretary Miatta Fahnbullaeh. Britain is planning a new fleet of nuclear reactors – without a repository for high-grade legacy waste. The UK’s efforts to find a location for an underground […]
Nate Bear Do Not Panic, August 19, 2026 Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, demand for food aid has exploded by more than 70%, and homelessness, which had been declining for more than ten years, has increased 34% in just two years. Conditions in the country are so […]
Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition GlenEllyn IL , 19 Aug 26, https://theaimn.net/21st-century-david-v-goliath/ What’s going on in the Middle East is not a Biblical fairy tale. Irans’s piddly military has delivered a devastating defeat to America’s gargantuan trillion dollar military. Iran’s David does not need to squander a trillion annually on 750 bases housing over 160,000 […]
By Michael Kern – Aug 18, 2026, https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Romania-Restarts-Coal-Plant-as-Danube-Drought-Forces-Nuclear-Shutdown.html Romania has this week restarted a 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant to partially offset the generation lost by the closure of nuclear electricity output after the low water level on the Danube river forced a shutdown of the country’s only…
Plus: Why the Iran war has prompted Trump to scale back key US-South Korea military drills As the US-Iran ceasefire officially expires and the Strait of Hormuzremains closed, is Donald Trump considering using nuclear weapons to breakthe war’s stalemate? On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest, Venetia Raineyand Roland Oliphant discuss why US politician Marjorie […]
The document refers to ‘spatial and temporal boundaries’ and ‘follow up and monitoring’. AsI understand the project, the temporal boundary is several hundred thousand years. But NWMO will not follow up or monitor beyond apx 160 years, instead handing the dgr to the public to follow up and monitor beyond that. If all the copper […]
“Those companies cannot be given exceptional public powers and then close the door when people ask how the powers are being used. Public confidence depends on meaningful transparency and accountability.” 17.Aug.2026, Adam Carey,…
By David Dalton, 17 August 2026, https://www.nucnet.org/news/canada-s-nuclea-energy-signs-agreement-to-acquire-moltex-advanced-nuclear-portfolio-8-1-2026 UK-based company was placed in administration in 2025 Ontario, Canada-based Nuclea Energy has entered into a definitive agreement with Moltex Energy Ltd – currently in administration – and its joint administrators to acquire advanced nuclear…
Reporterre 15th Aug 2026,https://reporterre.net/Nous-ne-capitulerons-pas-30-ans-de-bataille-contre-les-dechets-nucleaires Opponents of radioactive waste gathered near Bure for a weekend under heavy security. It was an opportunity to reiterate their opposition to the Cigéo project, whose problems threaten to become a defining feature of this century. This weekend, in a field in…
Are we as Chicago residents at ease with the unprecedented horrors of quantum and AI warfare coming out of our own backyards? Pete Hegseth’s Department of War is building America’s largest quantum computing project right here on the Southside of Chicago, to the detriment of not only our city but the world at large. Gov. […]
by Tyler Durden, Monday, Aug 17, 2026 – https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-fires-back-trumps-make-hormuz-strait-territory-us-ambitions-delusions Predictably, Iran has on Saturday issued a full-throated rejection of President Trump’s Friday evening words related to the status on the conflict and energy transit in the region. In a speech on New York’s Long Island, Trump introduced the idea…
NMDOJ also weighs in on NuFuels’ nuclear license renewal, saying company is making false promises about unproven extraction technology By Patrick Lohmann-August 10, 2026 , https://sourcenm.com/2026/08/10/anti-uranium-advocates-wrest-control-of-public-hearing-on-proposed-mine-near-navajo-nation/ GALLUP — A recent hearing meant to inform the public about a new uranium mine proposal near Church Rock…
18 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark , https://theaimn.net/colluding-with-violence-aiding-israeli-settlers-in-the-west-bank/ The latest incidents of Israeli settler violence in the villages of Qusra and Kour, located in the northern occupied West Bank, have again caught international attention, reaching the halls of the United Nations with a gravity that, sadly, is unlikely to have much effect.…
BBC 18th Aug 2026 Russia has accused the UK of “deliberately opting for an escalation of theUkraine crisis” following confirmation that British-made drones had beenused in strikes on targets in Russia. “In doing so, the United Kingdom isacting as an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes andterrorist attacks,” the Russian Embassy to the UK […]
a report submitted by theCanadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibilityto theCanadian Nuclear Safety Commission regarding OPG’s requestedauthorization for theProposed Pickering B Refurbishment August 12 2026Dr. Gordon Edwards, Ph.D. and Dr. Sunil Nijhawan, Ph.D. Recommendation 1: The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility regards it asan unreasonable risk to expose the City of Toronto and…
During his visit, the Secretary of War announced the signing of agreements and strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean against targets considered a threat to US security. BreakThrough News, August 14 2026, https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/08/14/us-military-expands-sphere-of-operations-during-hegseth-visit-to-panama/ On August 12, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited Panama, where he…
Fires and droughts could not spell out more clearly why nuclear power is the worst kind of risk under climate crisis conditions, writes Linda Pentz Gunter beyondnuclearinternational , August 16, 2026, https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/08/16/heatwave-hell/ You would think after the last several weeks we just had, the promoters of nuclear power might be tempering their messages a little.…
Hannah Bowlus, August 13, 2026, https://inkstickmedia.com/is-trumps-golden-dome-missile-defense-system-a-pipe-dream/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email US President Donald Trump’s highly touted ‘Golden Dome’ will cost taxpayers untold sums of money. Will it even work? The Golden Dome for America is US President Donald Trump’s vision of an impenetrable shield protecting the entire United States…
