North Korea has been signalling an uptick in its nuclear programme for a while – and its strategy is as clear as ever.
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Big data is about processing large amounts of data. It is often associated with multiplicities of data. But the ability to generate data outpaces the ability to store it.
South Africa has plans to build new power stations despite many calling for no nuclear energy in the country.
Anti-nuclear advocates may cheer the closing of nuclear power plants in the US, but thanks to cheap natural gas, less nuclear power means higher emissions.
Is George Osborne deploying the ‘Deep State’ to secure a long-term nuclear arsenal for Britain?
The UK government looks set to allow EDF to build a new kind of nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point. But are there better nuclear technologies we could use?
The UK’s first new nuclear power station since the 1990s is coming at the expense of renewable energy and leaving us unnervingly in hock to the Chinese.
As President Obama writes his thank you notes to Democrats in Congress who helped him pass the accord, he better not forget about his European partners.
The nuclear deal South Africa signed with Russia is set to be massively expensive and comes with a fair amount of risks.
Estimates of how much of Iran’s frozen assets it will get once sanctions are lifted vary widely, but the sum is most likely just a fraction of the total.
The way we judge nuclear risk isn’t just a rational calculation – it’s a reflection of much deeper biases.
Splits over Trident can create stalemate between the UK’s forces, but the public needs to debate renewing the deterrent before time runs out.
With wind braced for more cutbacks, government backing of nuclear and fracking will end in tears.
Coal closures announced this week in South Australia will cause employment pain, but could also help pave the way for the state to go 100% renewable - something that modelling suggests is eminently possible.
Instead of spending time trying to make nuclear energy a possibility, South Africa should look to forms of renewable energy instead.
What to make of the announcement that we’ll be off the hydrocarbons in time for the 22nd century? Dream on.
Controversy has raged down the years over whether the film was censored by the government. Now secret files reveal the truth after 50 years.
With the end of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race came to a virtual halt, but the nuclear threat remained. In regional rivalries, such as those in the south Asia subcontinent, northeast Asia, and the…
Westminster’s energy strategy to “keep the lights on” by relying on new nuclear build is looking increasingly like a recipe for economic ruin and political disarray. George Osborne, the chancellor, confirmed…
Westminster has failed to control rising electricity and gas prices. Between 1997 and 2013, UK households saw combined electricity and gas prices rise by 54% in real terms. In contrast, family income has…
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