Pick of the Week The Tony Blair Story Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, Channel 4, 9pm Nearly 30 years after Tony Blair led a New Labour sweep to power, this three-part documentary, airing on three consecutive nights, unpicks the life and legacy of one of the most controversial figures in British politics. Blair was seen as … Read more
Groenewegen, A., Rutten, F. H., Mosterd, A. & Hoes, A. W. Epidemiology of heart failure. Eur. J. Heart Fail. 22, 1342–1356. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1858 (2020). Google Scholar Yasuda, S. et al. The current status of cardiovascular medicine in Japan - analysis of a large number of health records from a nationwide Claim-Based Database, JROAD-DPC. Circ. J. 80, 2327–2335. … Read more
Slightly radioactive soil from near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be transported to Tokyo and used in flower beds in the prime minister’s garden, in an attempt to prove to a skeptical public that the material is safe. The decision comes 14 years after the plant suffered a triple meltdown in the … Read more
SKB announces start of six-year project at Forsmark facility The facility needs to be extended to accommodate decommissioning waste from Sweden’s six nuclear power plants. Courtesy SKB. Work to extend Sweden’s final repository for short-lived radioactive waste has begun with blasting 45 metres below ground, nuclear fuel management company SKB said. What we offer … Read more