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Professor Tim Tinsley outlines how material extracted from the UK's legacy nuclear material is being used in pioneering cancer treatments and for powering future space missions - and considers whether long-term disposal plans now need to take into account the current and potential future value in the material.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 02 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Podcast-How-nuclear-waste-can-save-lives-(and-powe
Leaders and representatives from 32 countries at the Nuclear Energy Summit backed measures in areas such as financing, technological innovation, regulatory cooperation and workforce training to enable the expansion of nuclear capacity to tackle climate change and boost energy security.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Leaders-back-nuclear-at-summit
The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said he is "absolutely confident" that "some arrangement" will be made to accept nuclear energy in the EU's taxonomy of sustainable investment. In an on-stage interview at COP26, he said the escalation of gas prices has increased political interest in nuclear power.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 November 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-absolutely-confident-of-nuclears-inclusion
Nuclear energy must be part of the European taxonomy as part of of the Green Deal, according to a joint letter sent to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission by 13 European trade unions.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 09 February 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newseuropean-union-say-nuclear-must-be-part-of-european-taxonomy-8500431
Nuclear energy must be part of the European taxonomy in order to meet the objective of the Green Deal, thirteen trade unions representing energy and nuclear workers have told Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in a joint letter. Exclusion of nuclear power will not only have a negative impact on the European nuclear industry but also on electricity-intensive industries, they said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Unions-call-for-European-taxonomy-to-include-nucle