Welsh Government in talks to buy Horizon nuclear power plant site from Hitachi in last-ditch effort to secure future of project By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 7 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 7 February 2021 The Welsh Government is in talks to buy the Horizon nuclear power plant site … Read more
Nuclear war between the United States and Russia or China is ‘a real possibility’ because Moscow and Beijing are ‘aggressively challenging’ world peace ‘in ways not seen since the Cold War,’ a four-star admiral warns. Admiral Charles A. Richard, who heads the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), which oversees America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons, expressed alarm … Read more
Hinkley Point nuclear plant to be delayed and cost £500m more than expected By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 January 2021 | Updated: 22:50 GMT, 27 January 2021 Hinkley Point C – the nuclear power station being built in Somerset – is set to be delayed, and costs are likely … Read more
Joe Biden offers Vladimir Putin a five-year extension on last-remaining treaty limiting nuclear weapons NEW Start treaty limits Russia and U.S. nuclear weapons to 1,550 deployed warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers It expires on February 5 and Trump opposed extending it, saying he wanted China in a three-way limitation treaty But Russia opposed move … Read more
Armed police guarding nuclear bomb factory lose 1,000 bullets which fell out of the back of an MOD van while driving down a 60mph road Around 1,000 rounds of live ammunition fell off back of a MoD van in Berkshire 9mm bullets rolled from the unmarked vehicle Monday whilst being transported Passerby alerted police after spotting spill … Read more
Donald Trump causes logistical nightmare for handover of nuclear codes by leaving Washington early with the ‘football’ before Joe Biden’s inauguration Donald Trump is expected to leave Washington at around 8am on Wednesday He will, as president, take the nuclear football with him, carried by an aide Normally the football is transferred from one aide … Read more
Iran launches missiles and shows off two new warships during navy drills among heightened tensions over its nuclear program Iran’s navy began a short-range missile drill in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday The two-day missile drill was being held in the gulf’s southeastern waters Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear … Read more
New Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng must ‘get his skates on’ and make 2021 the year Government finally commits to building nuclear projects Kwarteng has been urged to decide quickly – as the UK faces the threat of blackouts in the early 2030s Ministers are mulling plans to allow EDF to build the Sizewell C power … Read more
BREAKING: Iran has begun enriching its uranium to 20 per cent purity at an underground plant in breach of the 2015 nuclear deal By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline Published: 10:36 GMT, 4 January 2021 | Updated: 10:45 GMT, 4 January 2021 Iran has started enriching its uranium to 20 percent purity at an underground facility in … Read more
Chinese engineers are banned from working on Britain’s next nuclear plant after the storm over Huawei working on the UK’s 5G China General Nuclear confined to providing finance in the Sizewell project Follows concern over security risk of giving China role in Britain’s infrastructure EDF is leading two £20billion projects at Sizewell and sister plant … Read more