Dr Paul Dorfman
@drpauldorfman.bsky.social
Bennett Scholar, Bennett Inst. Sussex University; Chair, Nuclear Consulting Group; Member, Irish Govt. Radiation Protection Advisory Committee; served as Secretary to UK Govt. scientific advisory Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters. .. more
Bennett Scholar, Bennett Inst. Sussex University; Chair, Nuclear Consulting Group; Member, Irish Govt. Radiation Protection Advisory Committee; served as Secretary to UK Govt. scientific advisory Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters.
Environmental science
36%
Engineering
24%
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
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Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
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Nuclear costs are huge and rising and significant delays are the norm. The result is that #nuclear power faces the same fundamental challenges as fossil fuels – uncompetitive costs, stranded assets, a polluting legacy and unrivaled competition from #renewables.
Last year, the world added a record 582GW of #renewables energy capacity. That’s over 91% of all new power – with #nuclear nowhere. In fact, each year, nuclear adds as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.
Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In? - CleanTechnica
Mann offers a roadmap against an "ecocidal agenda" driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and much of the press.
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Bill Gates favors hypothetical new energy tech, including modular #nuclear reactors that Mann says “couldn’t possibly be scaled up over the time frame in which the world must transition off fossil fuels.”
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Use less energy : Demand-led policy scenarios show promise
Demand-side energy reduction has so far received less policy support than supply-side net-zero technologies, despite the fact that, as this ...
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‘Energy demand reductions of ~50% by 2050 compared with today are possible while maintaining essential services and improving quality of life’.
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Communities must be at the heart of Scotland’s renewable future
Renewable energy can be a tremendous engine for economic and social good in rural Scotland, but only if we treat local people as true partners
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#renewableenergy a tremendous engine for economic and social good in rural #Scotland, but only if we treat local people as true partners.
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U.N. nuclear agency returns to Chernobyl to check damage from recent Russian drone attack
The International Atomic Energy Agency is sending technicians to the site of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to assess the current condition of an arch-shaped steel structure that was erected ...
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Chernobyl : “While February’s drone strike did not lead to any release of #nuclear radioactive material, it caused significant structural damage, affecting the NSC’s designed confinement function and projected lifetime,”
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Inside the power-hungry data centres taking over Britain
Our thirst for AI is fuelling a new construction wave: of giant data centres. But can our electricity and water systems cope — and what will the neighbours say?
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#AI centres might use 1GW (1,000MW) of electricity — more power than is needed to supply the cities of London, Birmingham and Manchester put together.
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The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
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'Even today there are hotspots where staggering levels of radiation can be found due to material thrown out from the reactor when it exploded.'
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UK Government accused of 'shameful swindle' over energy bills reduction pledge
The UK Labour Government has been accused of a 'shameful swindle' on energy bills after a think tank suggested savings were lower than expected.
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SNP accuses UK Government of 'swindle' over #energy bills. The UK Government has been accused of a ‘shameful swindle’ over the reduction of energy bills after a think tank estimated savings could be significantly lower than pledged.
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UK Nuclear Projects Set to Add $1.3 Billion a Year to Power Bills | OilPrice.com
UK nuclear projects Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C are expected to raise household energy bills through subsidies, levies, and escalating project costs.
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Subsidies and Contracts for Difference (CfD) that UK govt has promised to two projects for new #nuclear power stations to add $1.32 billion (£1 billion) annually to the UK power bills from 2030.
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‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
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'There has been another very sinister development, which has put back the cause of action on #climate change into very dangerous territory: the latest “#nuclear renaissance”.'
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Big batteries flex their muscles as AEMO, ARENA underline "game-changing" role in closing coal reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
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Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#climate
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UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#climate
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