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Minnesota nuclear plant shuts down for leak; residents worry

A Minnesota utility has begun shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis after failing to stop the release of radioactive material

The Independent UK

US regulators delay decision on nuclear fuel storage license

U.S. regulators say they need more time to wrap up a final safety report and make a decision on whether to license a multibillion-dollar complex meant to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants around the nation

The Independent UK

A nuclear power plant leaked contaminated water in Minnesota. Here's what we know

The 400,000 gallon leak of water containing tritium occurred in November 2022, but the general public was not notified until last week. Officials said the leak is contained and poses no public danger.

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Huge 1.5 million litres of radioactive water with tritium leaks from nuclear power plant

Xcel Energy said they are cleaning up the leak of 400,000 gallons (1.5 million litres) of tritium-contaminated water from its Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota

Daily Mirror

Xcel is cleaning up radioactive water spill at Minnesota plant

MINNEAPOLIS — A broken pipe at Xcel Energy's Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant leaked about 400,000 gallons of water containing radioactive tritium, and the utility is working to clean up the contaminated plume, state regulators said Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Regulators monitor tritium leak at Minnesota nuclear plant

Minnesota regulators say they're monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant

The Independent UK

Editorial: Newsom’s nuclear power push exposes green energy

If you want more tangible evidence of how unrealistic the green push for renewable energy is, look at California.

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Race and erasure: why the world’s other humanitarian crises don’t see the same response as Ukraine

With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of the country’s population has been displaced, including 8 million people who have sought refuge beyond its borders.

The Conversation

Bid to keep California reactors running faces time squeeze

A late-hour attempt to extend the life of California’s last nuclear power plant is facing a time squeeze

The Independent UK

Some UN Afghan aid delivered by men only, donors voice alarm

Under pressure from Afghanistan's Taliban administration, the United Nations is delivering some food aid using men only, prompting warnings from donors and humanitarian groups that it could be seen as giving in to an internationally condemned ban on most female aid workers.

Reuters

Cleaning firm NRC rebrands back to Sureclean after management buyout

The company is now looking to double headcount within the first year, as part of a strategic growth plan

Insider UK

Federal regulators reject Diablo Canyon license renewal request from PG&E. What happens now?

Federal regulators on Tuesday rejected a request from PG&E that would have eased the utility company’s efforts to keep operating California’s last nuclear power plant longer.

Tribune News Service

Why Assam delimitation has sparked fears amid politics of the ‘indigenous’

The Election Commission’s delimitation exercise, and the Assam government’s decision to merge four districts and redraw administrative boundaries in 14 areas, have sparked fresh concerns among Bengali-origin Muslims. The fear is that these decisions will have an adverse impact on the electoral influence of the community in around 35 assembly…

Newslaundry

Taliban's ban on female aid workers: 'This is a red line for us,' NGO head says

Aid groups are warning of a dire situation in Afghanistan following the Taliban's banning of female NGO workers. Many major international aid groups have suspended their operations, including the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). We spoke to the NRC's Afghanistan director, Neil Turner, who said that organisations like his need female…

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The Guardian - AU

NSW forests could become net carbon emitters in coming decades, report finds

Declining soil organic carbon could undermine state’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Net zero isn’t possible without nuclear

Rather quietly, a new age of atomic energy may be approaching. Splitting atoms may not be as exciting as fusing them, or as modish as wind and solar projects. Yet old-fashioned fission is poised to make a comeback thanks to innovative new reactor designs. The world will be better for…

Salon

Cold War legacy lurking in groundwater

Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind

The Guardian - US

California’s last nuclear power plant gets $1bn funding to extend life

Biden administration approved the conditional funding to keep Diablo Canyon facility online beyond its scheduled 2025 shutdown

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Nottingham Post

Nottingham patients forced to travel 18 miles as facility move from City Hospital to £105m National Rehabilitation Centre

The £105 million facility will be built in south Nottinghamshire

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq Drought Impacts Potable Water Supply, Crop Yields, Says Aid Group

In drought-hit Iraq, six out of 10 households have had their access to drinking water disrupted and a quarter of farmers have seen crop yields drastically fall this year, said a survey published Monday. Iraq has been battered by three years of drought, low rainfall and reduced river flows, and…

Al Jazeera

Indonesia seeks return of ‘looted’ artefacts from Netherlands

Items include the bones of ‘Java Man’, the first known fossils of the Homo erectus species, excavated by Eugène Dubois.

The Hindu

Jamiat lends silent support to BJP as Centre continues crackdown on PFI and U.P. government initiates madrasa survey

The country’s oldest Muslim organisation has maintained studied silence over the arrests of PFI members. Meanwhile, its general secretary had supported the CAA after it was passed in Parliament and never joined protest against the Act.

The Hindu

Cloud over 200 additional Foreigners’ Tribunals, in Assam

Assam government has decided not to extend the term of the members appointed for these tribunals to handle cases related to the National Register of Citizens.

Dynamite News

Delhi Court grants bail to Sharjeel Imam in sedition case after 31 months of custody

A Delhi Court on Friday granted bail to Sharjeel Imam in a sedition case lodged against him for allegedly making an inflammatory speech at Jamia during an anti-CAA-NRC protest in 2019. He was in custody for the last 31 months. Read more on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

A census is not about counting sheep

The Census in India is about many things — it must be made a priority and used to affirm a sense of comradeship

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