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
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Nuclear Energy Is the Kremlin’s Latest Leverage Over Washington
The United States has done little to end its dependence on Russia for enriched uranium.
foreignpolicy.com
Nuclear Energy Is the Kremlin’s Latest Leverage Over Washington.
Today, #Russia remains America’s top supplier of #nuclear enrichment services (the process that turns natural #uranium into nuclear fuel).
This is odd ...
foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/21/u...
Today, #Russia remains America’s top supplier of #nuclear enrichment services (the process that turns natural #uranium into nuclear fuel).
This is odd ...
foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/21/u...
Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter
As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all
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Our message to global leaders: we need #solar power everywhere by the decade’s end.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.windpowermonthly.com
Vestas unveils largest onshore turbine to date. Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has a 7.2MW turbine, its largest onshore #wind turbine to date.
www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1970...
www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1970...
A 135-foot steel ball on the Scottish coast is getting rusty spots painted over even though it's slated for demolition, because the reactor inside still holds close to 1,000 uranium elements that swel...
So it's a little funny that the government-owned company cleaning up the old Dounreay nuclear site, on the far north coast of Scotland, went looking for a
www.autonocion.com
Decommissioning #Scotland #Douraey #nuclear reactor still holds close to 1,000 uranium elements that swelled and jammed in place.
Crews cut just 30 free last year ...
www.autonocion.com/us/dounreay-...
Crews cut just 30 free last year ...
www.autonocion.com/us/dounreay-...
Explainer: How sea level rise poses an ‘existential threat’ to humans, heritage and nature - Carbon Brief
For millions of people around the world, rising sea levels are already reshaping economies, livelihoods and cultures.
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How sea level rise poses an ‘existential threat’ to humans, heritage, nature.
(and coastal #nuclear reactors, spent fuel and intermediate level rad-waste stores, infrastructure)
#climate
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(and coastal #nuclear reactors, spent fuel and intermediate level rad-waste stores, infrastructure)
#climate
www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-ho...
‘It’s my duty to tell the truth’: UN chief on the climate crisis, capitalism and reasons to be hopeful
Before his final general assembly, António Guterres speaks about why he put climate at the centre of his UN tenure
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António Guterres, UN secretary general, has criticised “immoral” fossil fuel companies for their “grotesque greed”, warned that we have “opened the gates of hell” and hailed the new “clean energy age”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Faster electrification can slash energy import bills by $US400 billion, cut global oil use by 18 million barrels a day
IEA report finds electricity could meet 33% of world’s final energy consumption by 2035 – and slash the bills of fuel-importing nations by more than $US400 billion.
reneweconomy.com.au
International Energy Agency (IEA): Faster electrification can slash energy import bills by #$US400 billion, cut global oil use by 18 million barrels a day.
reneweconomy.com.au/faster-elect...
reneweconomy.com.au/faster-elect...
IRENA: Global renewable capacity additions must double, but solar PV potential makes this ‘feasible’
Annual global renewable energy capacity additions will need to almost double to 1.2TW if the world is to meet the COP28 targets, says IRENA.
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IRENA: Global #renewables capacity additions must double, but #solar PV potential makes this ‘feasible’.
www.pv-tech.org/irena-global...
www.pv-tech.org/irena-global...
Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge
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#Solar and #wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on #Australia national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Renewables: Grid shortages are forcing India to produce and waste green energy
India has rapidly decarbonised electricity generation, but its gains are tempered by transmission shortages.
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India is producing more green energy - but wasting a lot of it.
A decade ago India's installed #renewableenergy capacity was barely 4GW. It now makes up 300GW or 54% of its total 552GW installed capacity.
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A decade ago India's installed #renewableenergy capacity was barely 4GW. It now makes up 300GW or 54% of its total 552GW installed capacity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RIP SMRs: Is It the End of the Line for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors?
In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Ene...
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In early September, the organization behind Canada’s push for small modular #nuclear reactors (#SMRs) quietly signalled their demise.
www.theenergymix.com/rip-smrs-is-...
www.theenergymix.com/rip-smrs-is-...
Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen, new report shows
The Earth system is under strain, according to the latest Planetary Health Check. Seven of the nine Planetary Boundaries are now at their highest recorded levels of transgression. The report comes af...
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Seven of the nine Planetary Boundaries are now at their highest recorded levels of transgression.
“We do not have the luxury of time, but we do have the knowledge, capacity and solutions to change course.”
www.stockholmresilience.org/5.17909f491a...
“We do not have the luxury of time, but we do have the knowledge, capacity and solutions to change course.”
www.stockholmresilience.org/5.17909f491a...
Renewables hit more than 80 pct of grid demand for first time - despite heavy throttling of wind and solar
Updated: Renewables met more than 80 per cent of total grid demand for first time over a weekend that also saw record levels of rooftop PV and new demand lows.
reneweconomy.com.au
#Renewableenergy has broken through another key milestone on #Australia’s main grid, meeting more than 80% of demand for the first time, and could have met all of demand and more were it not for heavy curtailment of #wind and #solar.
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reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-h...
Swiss to vote on referendum against new nuclear power plants
More than 125,000 people signed the referendum petition against the government proposal that was approved by parliament in June.
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Swiss to vote on referendum against new #nuclear power plants. The Swiss are set to vote against the possibility of building new nuclear power stations.
Costs and risks associated with nuclear power are considered “too high.”
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/energy-t...
Costs and risks associated with nuclear power are considered “too high.”
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/energy-t...
Trump’s EPA must reinstate $7 billion grant program for solar panels, judge rules
District court rules that Biden-era Solar for All grants that help lower-income families and communities install solar panels cannot be terminated.
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US: Trump's EPA must reinstate $7bn grant programme for solar panels, judge rules.
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important #climate reports.
Fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
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Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for #climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for #climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...