Great British Energy - Nuclear (GBE-N) said it planned to spend up to £20bn on up to four awards under its Small Modular Reactor Technical Partner (SMR TP) procurement process, and announced on 8 May 2026 a £359M contract to Rolls-Royce SMR www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/04254...

thanks to a PQ from PQ enthusiast @benobesejecty.bsky.social, MOD has now revealed that the Atomic Weapons Establishment's (AWE's) Future Materials Campus is one of nine Defence Nuclear Enterprise projects with whole-life costs exceeding £10bn questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

HMG had, until fairly recently, been vague about whether it had formally commissioned Great British Energy - Nuclear to carry out a feasibility study into developing new nuclear power plants at sites in Scotland According to this FOI response to me, DESNZ did formally commission it in Oct 2025

I started getting paid for freelance writing in 2018 and the rates have stayed the same or fallen I don't think there are any truly 'freelance journalists' left, unless they have 20 years of journalism under their belt and are themselves at least a minor celebrity

always v interesting when people bring new tactics to campaigning for environmental and social justice I wrote this for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social

Neom finally cracked and gave me the tiniest details about the giga-project in Saudi Arabia confirmed to me that concrete works lining a trench pictured in photos shared by the chief operating officer of the Line are, in fact, not in the Line www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/neom-...

nuclear advocates seem convinced that an advanced modular reactor (AMR) is what Port Talbot Steelworks needs, but a steel industry source told me they thought electricity from AMRs would be too expensive www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/peer-...

often with these reports, its only binary identities which are recorded so it’s nice to see non-binary people having their gender identities at least made visible in this report on the nuclear workforce, despite representation being small www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/subma...

frmr defence sec Gavin Williamson asked the govt what it is doing to counter Chinese/Russian influence in 'global nuclear energy exports' despite the PQ being "due for answer by 28 March," FCDO has not yet responded I've approached FCDO questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Network Rail is stockpiling around 60,000t of rail (made of steel) because of concerns about the potential collapse of British Steel The Guardian first reported the existence of the stockpile NR spokes told me the railway needs around 60,000t per year www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/netwo...