Serco, Lockheed Martin and Jacobs set to lose contract to develop warheads for Britain’s fleet of nuclear submarines By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 Outsourcer Serco, defence firm Lockheed Martin and Jacobs Engineering are set to lose a contract to develop … Read more
Royal Navy chiefs set up elite unit to hunt for Russian spyware including underwater drones near UK’s key nuclear submarine base Team understood to have been deployed to Faslane to track underwater drones Comes after an unmanned ‘spy boat’ found off the coast of Scotland last month Surge in Russian subs in waters previously controlled … Read more
New nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk is set to be given the green light after government talks with energy giant EDF Talks said to have stepped up between government and contractor on project Planning documents were lodged for the nuclear plant in Suffolk back in May Specifics on funding for the new reactors … Read more
Nuclear engine designed for NASA could transport humans to Mars in just three months – cutting the current journey by more than half NASA is eyeing the 2030s for when it will send the first humans to Mars Mars is some 40 million miles from Earth, which should take seven months A Seattle firm is … Read more
STOCKS TO WATCH: Rolls-Royce shares go nuclear; Unilever to vote on London HQ By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 10:54, 12 October 2020 | Updated: 10:54, 12 October 2020 Rolls-Royce shares have been buffeted like a plane in a tornado in recent months – and there are signs of more turbulence ahead. The … Read more
Ministers consider £2bn aid plan to build 16 mini nuclear power stations by 2050 By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 7 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 7 October 2020 Up to £2billion could be put into a project to design and build mini-nuclear power stations. Ministers are considering the huge … Read more
A tennis court-sized nuclear fusion reactor being developed in the US could be producing electricity within a decade, backers claim. The SPARC nuclear fusion reactor, a joint project involving Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is expected to begin construction on June 21 next year and take three or four years until completion. It is hoped that SPARC … Read more
Threat to 10,000 jobs if the Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk does not go ahead, businesses and unions warn By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 18 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 18 September 2020 An artist’s impression of the proposed nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk Up to … Read more
Saudi Arabia may have enough uranium for nuclear fuel and weapons, Chinese report claims Chinese geologists have been helping the kingdom map its uranium reserves Confidential reports show more than 90,000 tonnes of uranium could be mined Saudi Arabia has been open about wanting nuclear self-sufficiency But experts fear this means they could use the … Read more
Doctors have warned that Madrid is walking ‘in slow motion’ towards a repeat of its ‘nuclear bomb’ Covid crisis in March. Spain has recorded an average of more than 10,000 new cases per day over the last week, the worst figures in Europe and the fifth highest infection rate in the world. Nearly a third of those falling … Read more