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
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Engineering
24%
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
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US voters linking #climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
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New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
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The 2025 nuclear year in review: Back to the Future Atomic Age
In many ways, 2025 resembled the Hollywood film Back to the Future—and not only because Donald Trump returned to the White House in January—Bulletin editor François Diaz-Maurin writes in his review of...
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Back in time.
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100-year-old mine to reopen in Cornwall - but not all locals are happy
A former clay pit is being converted into a lithium mine, producing a vital mineral for EV batteries to reduce UK reliance on China
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Old mine is expected to reopen as one of the UK’s first sites to produce and process lithium, the mineral that is essential for making batteries.
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Perovskite PVs and the future of solar panle recycling
The growing solar panel market creates some headaches around recycling.
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Perovskite PVs and the future of solar panel recycling.
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Opinion: Canada must acknowledge the implications of selling uranium to India
India is not just a routine customer – it’s a nuclear-armed state that never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty
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$3.94-billion sale of Canadian uranium to India - a #nuclear-armed state that has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the agreement meant to anchor global efforts against the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Politico: Despite the war, France will build nuclear fuel in Germany with the help of a Russian company - ProtoThema English
Can the ambitious plan to phase out Russian nuclear fuel succeed with Russian expertise? Paris believes it can and is pressing Berlin for approval
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Despite the war, France will build #nuclear fuel in Germany with the help of a Russian company.
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UK energy bill payers will pay £2 billion to EDF for new power stations
EDF will be entitled to £1bn in annual payments as soon as Hinkley Point C, in Somerset, comes on to the grid in 2030.
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UK energy bill payers will pay £2 billion to EDF for new #nuclear power stations.
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Developers of Sizewell C say nuclear power station will not affect eroding coastline
Sizewell C say they will "closely monitor" the coastline amid calls for gravel to be returned to Thorpeness to reduce erosion.
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Homeowners in Thorpeness called on Sizewell C #nuclear to return 210,000 tonnes of gravel they said had been dredged from the village shoreline in a bid to slow the pace of erosion.
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France enlists Russian state-owned company to help make nuclear fuel in Germany
It comes as the EU attempts to ban Russian energy imports, raising espionage and security concerns.
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Do what !
France enlists Russian state-owned company to help make #nuclear fuel in Germany www.politico.eu/article/fran...
France enlists Russian state-owned company to help make #nuclear fuel in Germany www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Half hour retail pricing cuts my electricity bills by a third! Plus: cheap heat pumps! and Plus: how Tory/Reform energy plans threaten British exports and public finances
In Britain a revolutionary new half-hour retail electricity tariff is leading the charge towards demand side management.
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Half hour retail pricing cuts my electricity bills by a third! Plus: cheap heat pumps! and Plus: how Tory/Reform energy plans threaten British exports and public finances, by @DaveToke open.substack.com/pub/davidtok...
2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office
The Met Office says that 2025 is likely to be the UK's hottest year since records began.
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Rising temperatures in the UK will become "the new normal"
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‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
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‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables.
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Radioactive water leak at decommissioned nuclear reactor in central Japan
Water containing radioactive substances leaked at the decommissioning site of the Fugen advanced converter reactor in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, on Tuesday.
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Radioactive water leak at decommissioned nuclear reactor in central Japan news.cgtn.com/news/2025-12... via @cgtnofficial
Chornobyl protective structure could collapse following Russian strikes, plant director warns
"No one can guarantee that the shelter facility will remain standing after that. That is the main threat," plant director Serhii Tarakanov said.
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Protective shield built above the former Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant could collapse following a Russian strike earlier this year, plant director Serhii Tarakanov
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The Parallel Universe of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
The Parallel Universe of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), Scotland’s Place in the Narrative As a fiction writer, I’m faced with alternate narrative possibilities, and the different ways a story might…
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The Parallel Universe of Small Modular Reactors (#SMRs).
#nuclear
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#nuclear
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Can Nuclear Power Solve Climate Crisis?
YouTube video by Science Talk
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My Sciencetalk interview.
#Nuclear too costly too late for #climate or energy crises.
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#Nuclear too costly too late for #climate or energy crises.
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Redirecting...
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Renewable evolution
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Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
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#Trump shuttering National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist
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