There was a big green NSPCC stall on the Market Place this morning with things for sale and prizes to be won.
Also after a few days without, the postbox lid has a new crochet top featuring Peter Rabbit.
The Friends of Abingdon Civic Society has started a petition to the Vale of White Horse District Council and Contemporary Hotels (who have a seventy year lease) to break the impasse over the Upper Reaches Hotel site. You can read it and, if you agree, sign it at https://chng.it/7dY88CbZwn
The petition calls on the Vale of White Horse District Council and Contemporary Hotels Ltd to resolve the current impasse and bring the site back into use.
There is more information at https://abingdoncivicsociety.org.uk/conservation/upper-reaches-hotel/.
It was announced two days ago that the JET tokamak, at Culham near Abingdon, produced two and a half times the amount of fusion energy obtained during a previous trial in 1997. It provides test evidence that the more advanced tokamak, called ITER, being built in the South of France, is worthwhile.
JET’s tokamak reactor has atoms of deuterium and tritium at the center. These isotopes of hydrogen (having one and two additional neutrons respectively), are heated to temperatures (10 x the Sun’s centre) to fuse them into helium atoms. This reaction releases a huge amount of energy.
There is more information with videos at https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/fusion-energy-record-demonstrates-powerplant-future/.
The picture from Abingdon Museum has some information about atomic research happening at Harwell and Culham.