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Statement from CND opposing Starmer/Miliband's #nuclear power plans, noting,
a) uranium is imported, b) Sizesell & SMRs are intested designs, c) the link to nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
"Government’s nuclear power roll out is about building up its weapons programme" - #CND…

Government’s nuclear power roll out is about building up its weapons programme - CND
The government’s announcement to pour billions of pounds into Sizewell C and roll out untested small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear plants is about building up its nuclear weapons programme rather than securing energy self-sufficiency.

Uh, World Bank, solar?
World Bank Lifts Ban on Nuclear Power, Considers Upstream Gas | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/world-bank-lifts-ban-on-nuclear-power-considers-upstream-gas

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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£13.2bn fund to fix draughty homes and install heat pumps and solar panels.
Nothing else that I can see on reduction of energy demand.
And here is the money being wasted:
'£30bn in investment in nuclear power, about half on the Sizewell C reactor'
Small tidal schemes in the Mersey, Severn and other estuaries would give a better, and safer, approach to "always on" energy supply.

Revealing Dark Matter's Role in Neutron Stars Anisotropy: A Bayesian Approach Using Multi-messenger Observations
Xue-Zhi Liu, Premachand Mahapatra, Chun Huang, Ayush Hazarika, Chiranjeeb Singha, Prasanta Kumar Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08376

Revealing Dark Matter's Role in Neutron Stars Anisotropy: A Bayesian Approach Using Multi-messenger Observations
Dark matter (DM) continues to evade direct detection, but neutron stars (NSs) serve as natural laboratories where even a modest DM component can alter their structure. While many studies have examined DM effects on NSs, they often rely on specific choices of equations of state (EOS) models, assume isotropy, and lack a Bayesian statistical framework, limiting their predictive power. In this work, we present a Bayesian framework that couples pressure-anisotropic nuclear EOS to a self-interacting …

Meta agrees to acquire power from Constellation's operating Illinois nuclear plant, in a 20-year deal starting in mid-2027 when a state subsidy expires (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Iran's Khamenei dismisses US nuclear proposal, vows to keep enriching uranium (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-supreme-leader-says-us-nuclear-proposal-undermines-its-national-power-2025-06-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p44#a250604p44

Adam Bandt
That tiny Bandt
With his atomic power
Would have been so much funnier if he was the one spruiking nuclear energy.
#auspol

More depressing news as governments swallow propaganda from the nuclear power lobby.
Renewables won't deliver the power currently used, and projected, but nor will nuclear, which also depends on fossil fuels, uses a scarce and diminishing resource, and leaves a toxic legacy for which there is no adequate solution.
The only solution is radical energy descent.
Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power | Nuclear power | The Guardian

No sign Russia is preparing to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/no-sign-russia-is-preparing.html

Companies are pursuing small nuclear reactors to power their data centers, and I can't see how anything could go wrong with that

UK-Regierung worst 14 Milliarden Pfund zum Fenster hinaus.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/10/sizewell-c-nuclear-power-station-ed-miliband-investment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for #NuclearPower Plants, Lowest for #Solar

Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar - CleanTechnica
A new study from the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability finds that construction costs run over budget for more than 60% of energy infrastructure projects worldwide. By Laura Hurley Between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency projects that more than $100 trillion will be spent on building net-zero energy infrastructure globally. ... [continued]

"Meta signs deal with nuclear plant to power AI and datacenters for 20 years"
#Meta #Facebook #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

It’s not like PA has any history of needing such alarms… https://epistolary.org/@vees/114616119029931607

Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: (@vees@epistolary.org)
Attached: 1 image Neighbor on local Facebook group savaged for complaining about “excessive” semi-annual nuclear power plant alert siren network testing.

I don't usually get involved in the pro/anti nuclear discussion, but whenever people say "we need nuclear because renewables aren't reliable enough", do they usually take into account how much energy storage you can buy for the price of one nuclear power plant?

Nuclear Quantum Many-Body Dynamics: From Collective Vibrations to Heavy-Ion Collisions (2nd edition)
C\'edric Simenel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04261 …

Nuclear Quantum Many-Body Dynamics: From Collective Vibrations to Heavy-Ion Collisions (2nd edition)
New edition of the review [EPJA 48, (2012) 152]. The increase in computational power has naturally led to new applications of mean-field (and beyond) methods. This is particularly the case of quasi-fission reactions. Since the first edition, significant progress has also been made in treating pairing correlations dynamically, leading to realistic applications in multi-nucleon transfer, fusion and fission reactions. A new section has been added on fission dynamics. A summary of recent researches…

Anisotropic superconducting gap probed by $^{125}$Te NMR in noncentrosymmetric Sc$_6M$Te$_2$ ($M$ = Fe, Co)
Kanako Doi, Hayase Takei, Yusaku Shinoda, Yoshihiko Okamoto, Daigorou Hirai, Koshi Takenaka, Taku Matsushita, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Shimizu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02484 …

Anisotropic superconducting gap probed by $^{125}$Te NMR in noncentrosymmetric Sc$_6M$Te$_2$ ($M$ = Fe, Co)
The superconducting gap symmetry is investigated by $^{125}$Te NMR measurements on Sc$_6M$Te$_2$ ($M$ = Fe, Co) without spatial inversion symmetry. The spin susceptibility obtained from the Knight shift $K$ is suppressed below the superconducting transition temperature, while leaving a finite value down to the lowest temperature ($\simeq 0.4$ K). The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ follows a power law against temperature $T$ without showing a coherence peak characteristic of the is…

This type of reasoning is always baffling to me. When climate change is discussed these people always say that there is some magical technological solution that will pop up to save us (usually handed to us by the AI gods).
Why then, in the the several decades that it takes to scale up nuclear, can we not account for the possibility that AI could become more energy efficient?
That sounds like something you could solve for the cost of a few power plants...

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss
The world's largest cloud computing company plans to spend £8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11648 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

Isotopic Transparency in Central Xe+Sn Collisions at 100 MeV/nucleon
A new method, based on comparing isotopic yield ratios measured at forward and sideward polar angles and on cross-bombarding heavy nuclei with different neutron-to-proton ratios, is used to quantify the stopping power of nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions. For central collisions of isotopically separated $^{124,129}$Xe+$^{112,124}$Sn at 100~MeV/nucleon bombarding energy, measured with the 4$π$ multidetector INDRA at GSI, a moderate transparency is deduced for hydrogen isotopes, whereas for…

New level density parameter beyond Egidy-Bucurescu's systematics
Junzhe Zhang, Yanan Zheng, Caixin Yuan, Yangyang Shen, Yingchen Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02322

New level density parameter beyond Egidy-Bucurescu's systematics
Extending beyond the Egidy-Bucurescu systematics, the nuclear level density parameters (LDPs) for the back-shifted Fermi gas model were compiled. Three forms of LDPs were fitted: the liquid-drop model (LDM), the droplet model (DM), and the power-law dependence on mass number A. Additionally, the root-mean-square deviations (RMSDs) of the new LDPs and existing literature values were calculated. The newly fitted global LDM-type parameters outperform the commonly used Toke-Swiatecki parameters in …