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Alec Luhn
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Severodvinsk missile test explosion yesterday looks more radioactive than we'd thought, as drivers in hazmat suits brought victims to Moscow hospital & nuclear waste tanker came to test site. This comes only days after we toured Russia's "invincible" floating nuclear power plant!
This is the satellite image reportedly showing the Serebryanka nuclear waste cleanup and storage tanker arriving at the site of yesterday's missile test explosion. @ArmsControlWonk thinks it might have been the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile Putin announced last year
@ArmsControlWonk The video of the ambulances reportedly taking victims of missile test explosion to a hospital in Moscow after the reported radiation spike. The drivers appear to be in hazmat suits and the back of the ambulances are covered in plastic telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/0…
The radioactive Severodvinsk missile engine explosion gets worse & worse. Now it's not just 2 who died but 5 employees of state nuclear concern Rosatom. They were testing an "isotope source of power". A nuclear waste cleanup ship has reportedly showed up tass.ru/proisshestviya…
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Alec Luhn
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THREAD about visit to the floating nuclear power plant for those who missed it yesterday (or don't want to enter email to read for free). In short, cost & safety issues matter less than geopolitics in Russia's “nuclearification” of the warming Arctic 1/10 telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/0…
Academic Lomonosov is basically a huge nuclear barge that'll be towed 3000 miles to replace nuclear plant near the gold-mining town of Pevek. Why didn't Rosatom just build another plant onshore or retrofit an icebreaker (& save $)? For one that wouldn't get as much publicity 2/10
Its 2 uranium-fueled reactors can power a city of 100,000. Rosatom wouldn't show us the reactors, but this is the control room. Rostekhnadzor complained it wasn't allowed to check on construction regularly—then gave the plant an operating license anyway. 3/10
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Alec Luhn
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Global warming is contributing to "polar bear invasions" in the Russian Arctic. In Amderma they have a polar bear patrol to drive them off: “They used to go on the ice to hunt seals. Now there's no ice...they go along the shore, and the town is in the way”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/2…
The problem & its link to climate change was shown by the "polar bear invasion" on Novaya Zemlya in February. Once sea ice finally formed, the 50+ bears left the town dump to hunt seals. Amderma's bear patrol has had to drive off 8 bears already this year telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/2…
Polar bears are being forced onshore even as more humans arrive. Russia revamped Arctic military bases & last week launched 1 of 9 nuclear icebreakers for northern sea route. In March Putin launched operations at Gazprom's Kharasaveyskoe field near Sabetta telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/2…
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Alec Luhn
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.@novaya_gazeta calls into doubt the official explanation the 3 Russian journalists investigating Wagner mercenaries in CAR were killed in a robbery. A CAR gendarme was following them & calling Russians linked to Wagner boss Prigozhin, phone records show novayagazeta.ru/articles/2019/…
The Russian journos wanted to go east to Bambari but their driver, a former gendarme, took them north where they were ambushed, beaten & shot. Who found the driver? "Martin," the mysterious fixer recommended by an employee of FAN (owned by Prigozhin, whom they were investigating)
The gendarme following the journos, Emmanuel Kotofio, quickly arrived at the murder site "with 3 Europeans" but left the bodies. He had been frequently calling a deputy of Zakharov, the Russian security advisor to CAR's president. He reportedly got a promotion after their killing
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Julie #ImmigrantsBuiltAmerica Laumann🆘
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Explosion at a secretive Russian military missile research facility Thursday killed 2 people and triggered a radiation leak in the nearby city of #Severodvinsk, forcing authorities to ban shipping from a major port for a month @marcbennetts1 thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/…
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What does the IPCC say about #nuclear energy? ☢️
In this thread, I will try to summarize in a simple, complete and objective way ALL the points risen by the @IPCC_CH 🇺🇳 about this #energy source in its latest report: “Global Warming of 1.5ºC”🌍 Surprises are assured...👇🏽
Let's start with some background. Why do we talk about 1.5?
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Doug Parr
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HEALTH WARNING: THREAD

Here we go again on new #nuclear power...

Last night, when most sensible people were having an evening's rest, a shambolic piece of policy was published

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Here's the critical para

And that's all you're going to get as justification for major energy system choices, which will cost billions of ££ and commit UK to infrastructure legacy for decades

(in fact given nuke waste, hundreds of thousands of years)
What's being proposed is best explained here - the only coverage I see of this government paper this morning

The point of these proposals is to make it easier for investors to build #nuclear by throwing lots of risk onto the energy bill payer

ft.com/content/e2cf07…
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Ben Heard
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Here is a thread about uranium mining based on this article by Dr Gavin Mudd. It's worth reading theconversation.com/its-not-worth-…
1stly, I have researched and written about the environmental impacts of uranium mining in Australia. It was paid work with terms of reference that gave me authority. I cited Dr Mudd among others. Most have found it very helpful theconversation.com/its-not-worth-…
Wrong link...
minerals.org.au/sites/default/…
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Rauli Partanen
@Kaikenhuippu
Thread of the day: Techno-economically, #Nuclear could pretty much stop #climatechange. We need to stop lamenting how hard it is to build because it's politically unpopular (circular argument) and instead start making it more popular. Inherently it's an awesome tech. Here's why:
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JesseJenkins
@JesseJenkins
I was about to head offline for 2 weeks, but I need to respond to this new paper from @ppchef before I go on whether #nuclear can operate flexibly. By coincidence, I just had a peer-reviewed article on this very subject accepted by Applied Energy by today! So here's a thread...
In this new "discussion paper," energy journalist @PPchef takes great pains to demonstrate that nuclear power is too inflexible to pair well with wind & solar in a "decarbonized energy system" & thus must be discarded "to make room" for more #wind & #solar publications.iass-potsdam.de/pubman/item/es…
I'm going to defer technical discussion of whether nuclear plants (old and new) can ramp or change output to match fluctuations in net demand and contribute to system reliability/flexibility until my paper is released (short answer: they certainly can if doing so is valuable)...
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