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US puts pressure on Hitachi’s UK nuclear site sale to China

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s government has put pressure on Japan’s Hitachi Ltd not to sell a nuclear-power project in the UK to China, The Sunday Times reported, without saying where it got the information. Hitachi is weighing options for the Horizon nuclear project in Anglesey, according to the report. The company said in January 2019 that it would halt ...

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UK’s last big gas plants are being built

Bloomberg In the north of England about 450 engineers are toiling away to build a new large gas plant. It could be one of Britain’s last. SSE’s 840-megawatt Keadby plant is the latest gas plant under construction in the UK. At the start of June a gas turbine weighing as much as an Airbus A-380 arrived on-site from Germany, keeping ...

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America’s Covid-19 crisis bodes badly for the future

America’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic is a warning that, unless our broken political and administrative systems are fixed, the country could experience a similar breakdown in future national crises, such as a massive cyberattack. This stark message was contained in a little-noticed white paper recently released by the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, titled “Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic.” ...

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