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  • Shutdown of two UK nuclear power stations pushed back to 2028

    Two ageing UK nuclear power stations will remain operational until 2028, Centrica and EDF have announced.

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    E+T Magazine in Nuclear Power
  • German pilot plant to extract reusable EV battery cells for second-life use

    A Germany-based project is aiming to give electric vehicle traction batteries a second life as energy storage, avoiding costly shredding.

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    E+T Magazine in Recycling
  • Single ‘all-frequency’ 6G chip achieves 100Gbps internet speeds

    A 6G chip capable of delivering high-speed internet across all frequencies, exceeding 100 gigabits per second, has been developed by Chinese researchers.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • World’s first commercial ammonia-powered ship engine launched in Japan

    Japan Engine Corporation has launched the world’s first fully functional, full-scale commercial ammonia-fuelled ship engine.

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    E+T Magazine in Fossil Fuels
  • North Sea emissions down a third since 2018 but ‘much more to do’ to stay on target

    The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry risks missing its 2040 targets despite cutting production emissions for a fifth year running, says the North Sea Transition Authority.

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    E+T Magazine in Renewable Energy
  • Industry insight: Why operational blind spots are the biggest risk to modern data centres

    While the industry focuses on scaling capacity, the real risk lies in operational blindness. Legacy data centre operations and o

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    E+T Magazine in Artificial Intelligence
  • Industry Insight: Navigating the fine line in connectivity and digital technology partnerships

    In 25 years of operating, CW has seen much change in the connectivity landscape, and no more so than now. The fast-evolving wire

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • Ticketless train trials get under way in East Midlands and the North

    The app tracks passengers as they tap in and out of stations, automatically charging them the best fare at the end of the day.

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    E+T Magazine in Management of Technology
  • UK secures £10bn deal to supply Norway with BAE Type 26 frigates

    A £10bn deal to provide Norway’s Armed Forces with Type 26 frigates represents the ‘biggest ever warship export deal by value’, according to the Ministry of Defence.

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    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • AI-generated video simulates Mount Fuji eruption to prepare residents for risks

    Japanese officials have released an AI-generated video warning Tokyo residents that a Mount Fuji eruption could strike “at any moment, without warning”.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • UK offshore wind project pipeline at risk from infrastructure and supply chain bottlenecks

    The UK risks missing its offshore wind targets because of infrastructure and supply chain bottlenecks, says a new industry report.

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    E+T Magazine in Renewable Energy
  • Heat pumps could slash household heating bills with government reform

    UK households could save almost £400 a year on heating bills with a heat pump if electricity costs were reduced, analysis has found.

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    E+T Magazine in Renewable Energy
  • US and South Korean firms team up to accelerate the roll-out of advanced nuclear reactors

    An agreement between US and South Korean firms will speed up the deployment of advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the growing power demands of Amazon’s data centres and AI operations.

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    E+T Magazine in Nuclear Power
  • World’s largest 1MW sand battery officially goes live in Finland

    Located in the southern town of Pornainen, the sand battery will meet the heating needs of the district with a high-temperature

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  • Autonomous underwater vehicle reaches 2,300m in deep sea test

    Nauticus Robotics has sent an autonomous underwater vehicle to depths of 2,300 metres ahead of plans to launch a commercial service for monitoring infrastructure in the deep ocean.

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    E+T Magazine in Fossil Fuels
  • Cardiac arrest in space – chest compression machines could improve astronaut survival

    A type of automatic chest compression is more effective for carrying out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ currently recommended in emergency protocols, researchers have said.

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    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Norway injects captured CO2 under the North Sea for the first time

    Captured CO2 is being injected into a huge reservoir 2,600 metres under the Norwegian seabed for long-term storage.

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    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • As UK steelmakers transition to EAFs, recyclers warn limiting scrap exports risks 20,000 jobs

    Proposals to limit the export of UK scrap steel have been rejected by metal recyclers, who warn it could endanger thousands of jobs and cost up to £5bn in economic activity.

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    E+T Magazine in Recycling
  • Solar panels placed in space could drastically reduce need for Earth-based renewables

    Space-based solar power generators could reduce Europe’s need for land-based renewable energy by up to 80%, a study has found.

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    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Over 2,000 misconnected waste pipes in London pumping sewage directly into rivers

    More than 2,000 properties across London are pumping raw sewage into rivers due to drainage misconnections, according to a BBC report.

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    E+T Magazine in Waste Management
  • HS2 bridge built beside canal then rotated into place in rare engineering feat

    HS2 has moved a 112m long, 1,631 tonne steel bridge into place over Lawley Middleway in Birmingham after constructing the whole structure on a separate, nearby site.

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    E+T Magazine in Construction Industry
  • World’s first industrial scale fossil-free plastics facility planned for Europe

    AP Moller Holding’s plastics plant, due to open in 2028, will use green methanol to produce approximately 300,000 tonnes of fossil-free virgin plastics per year.

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    E+T Magazine in Fossil Fuels
  • Modular robots developed that can assemble into bridges and shelters for disaster relief

    Engineers have developed modular robots that can assemble into structures in situ to make temporary bridges or structures depending on the task at hand.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • Supercomputer simulations to predict future earthquakes

    Simulations produced using an exascale supercomputer are enabling researchers to predict when an earthquake is likely to happen

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
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