British Energy raises prospect of new nuclear power stations
Sellafield on Last Legs as British Nuclear Power Stations Pull OutBRITISH Energy, the last major customer for the crisis-ridden Sellafield nuclear plant, is to dramatically reduce its commitment to reprocessing there.GEOFFREY LEAN ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT...
•The relationship between luxury and power in the ancient world is explored in a new exhibition at the British Museum.Luxury and power: Persia to Greecefocuses on the period between 550-30 BC in the Middle East and south-east Europe, a period during which the Persian empire of ancient Ir...
Nuclear Weapons: Launched: Eaten:0 171 97 Nation Stats Infrastructure Destroyed:949,001.05 Infrastructure Lost:793,080.00 Money Looted:$1,203,760,966.50 Wars Won:183 Wars Lost:200 Bounties There are no posted bounties on this nation. Map ...
Radios: 9,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus one cable company) (1997) Televisions: 4,000 (1997) Geographical information Location: Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico Geographic coordinates: 18 30 N, 64 30 W Map refere...
It was also released into the atmosphere after nuclear power plant accidents (i.e., Chernobyl in 1986, Fukushima-Dai-ichi in 2011), although radioactive fallout due to these accidents is generally negligible in most parts of Canada compared to bomb-derived fallout (Joshi 1986, 1988; Smith et...
“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.â€Â In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – ra...
There is something odd about the map of Kenya. From Lake Victoria to the Coast, the borderline moves in a straight line that is only broken by a small kink. That unassuming curve would not be significant if it did not conveniently place Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, on Tanzani...
We are thinking of selling the idea to one of those health corporations.' `Well, that's all I can show you here,' said Pete. `We also have the monitoring stations and the Computer Centre down here, but that's all classified.' With a last glance of horrified fascination over our ...
China Can Invest in British Nuclear Power StationsTapsfield, James