Are Environmentalist Stunts Obfuscating A Serious Nuclear Debate?

By SightlineU3O8 Posted in Local Influence U

Posted on August 20, 2018August 20, 2018

The Greenpeace activists who crashed a Superman-styled drone into an EDF facility near Lyon, France on July 3 pulled off the latest of several stunts designed to highlight the vulnerability of France’s ageing nuclear reactors. In a country whose energy mix is built on nuclear power, the strategy is working: the Superman incident came just before a French parliamentary report called …

World first EPR nuclear reactor begins work in China

By SightlineU3O8 Posted in Reactors U

Posted on June 7, 2018June 7, 2018

A third generation EPR reactor in China carried out its first nuclear chain reaction on Wednesday, an initial start up which is a world first for the much-delayed European technology. The European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in Taishan, southern China “carried out its first chain and therefore it has started,” tweeted Xavier Ursat, head of new …

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