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Fery, a wildcard at this year's tournament, uploaded a picture of himself shaking hands with the Princess of Wales to his profile on the app in a bid to win the attention of potential matches.

The anonymous racing fan pulled off the ultimate dream wager on Saturday afternoon, putting down a total stake of just £2 on a complex seven-fold accumulator.

A Canadian lab has run a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel "and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years," notes the blog Autonocio, "with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor." The standard plan for spent nuclear fuel is to wait it out. You pull the used bundles from a reactor, sit them in a pool of water for seven to ten years while the heat and radiation come down, seal them in concrete casks, and look for somewhere deep and geologically dull to leave them for the next hundred thousand years. Canada has been hunting for that burial site since the 1980s and still doesn't have one in the ground. A company in Saint John, New Brunswick thinks most of what makes that waste dangerous never needed to go in the ground at all. Moltex Energy Canada says a chemical process it calls WATSS can strip 90% of the long-lived material out of used Canada Deuterium Uranium [CANDU] fuel in 24 hours, and that the concentrated leftovers become fuel for a reactor it wants to build on the same site. The recovery step isn't a slide in a pitch deck anymore. In 2025, World Nuclear News reported that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories ran the process on real used fuel from a commercial Canadian reactor and confirmed the 90% figure. None of it is generating power yet. What exists is a validated chemical step and a reactor design waiting in line at a regulator. The rest is a 2030s problem. "The chemistry has a lab result behind it. The reactor does not exist..." the article points out. "Moltex is aiming to have its first WATSS and SSR-W units running at Point Lepreau by the early-to-mid 2030s... Not everyone buys the pitch. Critics have argued the reprocessing creates its own stream of byproducts, that the economics are unproven, and that a single site's stockpile is finite." But Moltex "isn't alone in trying to burn nuclear waste instead of bury it," the article notes, with Switzerland and Denmark "chasing the same goal a different way." Switzerland's Transmutex drives a subcritical reactor with a particle accelerator, feeding it spent fuel alongside thorium... Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics is building a thorium molten-salt reactor that fits inside a shipping container and runs on the leftovers from conventional plants. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader kwelch007 for sharing the article.

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Holly - who is pregnant with the couple's first child - flashed a glimpse of her blossoming baby bump at the race as she sported a black T-shirt and trousers.

Firefighters tackled a late-night wildfire in Tendring that spread rapidly across a field, with crews working alongside a local farmer.

Firefighters tackled a late-night wildfire in Tendring that spread rapidly across a field, with crews working alongside a local farmer.

They're considered to be among the Royal Family's most outgoing members, so perhaps it's little surprise that Prince George has taken a strong liking to Zara Tindall and her husband Mike.

Dear Bel, My mum was never maternal. She just yelled at us, good at smacking too, and beat me when I got brought back after running away for the second time as a child.

Who wouldn't want a risk-free income in retirement, that you are guaranteed to receive every month regardless of what turbulence hits the economy and stock market.

The soaring numbers of bereaved families who are being hit with inheritance bills have become something of a national scandal - yet the situation if anything is about to get a whole lot worse.

When homeowners have building or plumbing work done, they blithely throw old materials in the skip or are grateful when tradesmen offer to take them away. But they could be an unlikely treasure...

London's 'pickpocket vigilante' shares his most terrifying encounters, distraction techniques you must watch out for, and the worst hotspots where your valuables are most at risk.

Simon Jordan has questioned the nature of Anthony Joshua's victory over Kristian Prenga as he recovered from two knockdowns to set up a lucrative showdown with Tyson Fury.

The high-decibel, piercing screams ricocheting around Shepherd's Bush Empire took me right back to 1995, when I was a teenager besotted with Take That.

Brendan Sheppard, 49, built the 1983 replica version of the Time Lord's control room with a group of craftsmen over two years, ensuring complete accuracy.

Cllr Tom Cunningham has said Braintree has been "let down" by the Home Office as it announced plans to increase capacity and keep it open past 2027

More than 500 firefighters have been tackling the blaze, which has now been burning for 11 days, alongside helicopter water-bombers.

A colleague pointed to my Birkenstock-clad feet and said - as if revealing an extra gruesome detail at a fairground freak show: 'Look, Simon's big toenails are prehensile!'

One man is in a critical but stable condition after three people got into difficulty in the sea in Clacton.

One man is in a critical but stable condition after three people got into difficulty in the sea in Clacton.