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Renewable Revolution or Nuclear Nightmare?
Oliver Tickell
13th July 2012
The rapid spread of solar power across China, India, Africa and Latin America is being driven not by subsidy but by the market more...
Nuclear waste 'may be blighting 1,000 sites' in the UK
Rob Edwards, guardian
2nd May, 2012
MoD under fire after DECC report finds number of sites contaminated with radioactive waste is far higher than previously estimated more...
Fukushima: the social impact of a nuclear disaster
Hiroki & Ngaire Takano
15th February, 2012
The earthquake and nuclear meltdown in Japan last year compounded pre-existing issues like falling birth rates, fragmented families and shrinking communities. What does the future hold? more...
Campaigners say no to nuclear new build at Hinkley Point
Nikki Clark
15th February, 2012
Campaign group South-West Against Nuclear want to stop the government's plans for a 'nuclear renaissance' beginning in Hinkley Point in Somerset. Nuclear, activists say, is plagued by problems from beginning to end more...
Battlelines drawn as Cumbrian residents square up over nuclear waste site
Matilda Lee
15th February, 2012
A decision looms on whether - and where - to build the UK's first deep disposal for nuclear waste. Two borough councils in Cumbria have 'volunteered' - but can the communities be convinced? Matilda Lee reports more...
Links between childhood leukaemia and nuclear power plant radiation
Matilda Lee
15th February, 2012
The UK government's scientific advisory group found no link between childhood leukaemia and proximity to nuclear power plants, but German and French research has found an alarming doubling of risk more...TAKE ACTION to stop nuclear weapons build in the US
Matilda Lee
31st August, 2011
In Kansas City, Missouri, people have lost jobs, schools have closed and hospitals have moved away. Now the government has subsidised a new federal nuclear weapons plant with $815 million in municipal bonds... more...
Kazakhstan’s nuclear legacy offers lessons for Fukushima
Matilda Lee
30th August, 2011
The Semipalatinsk region suffered under four decades of Soviet nuclear testing. Now, the country wants to become an international research hub for the effects of radiation on future generations. Matilda Lee reports from Kazakhstan more...
The big divide: is ideology holding back greens from embracing nuclear power?
Matilda Lee
20th July, 2011
Once united in opposition, the environmental movement is now divided on nuclear power. Matilda Lee reports on why some greens say that anti-nuclear is just sentimentalism more...
Plans to strip mine the moon may soon be more than just science-fiction
Henry Gass
4th July, 2011
It may not be long before we start mining the moon for its resources, particularly the rare Helium-3 for its use in nuclear fusion more...
Response: don't dismiss the potential of thorium nuclear power
Bryony Worthington
1st July, 2011
Thorium – the theory is sound and potentially game changing – we need to see it put into practice, argues Labour peer and former Friends of the Earth campaigner Bryony Worthington more...
Aren't floods, cancer and infant mortality enough to stop Hinkley nuclear proposal?
Rosie Shute
29th June, 2011
Despite claims of a higher incidence of breast cancer and infant mortality in the vicinity of the existing Hinkley nuclear plant, and concerns over flooding in the region, the government has put forward crazy plans for a new facility says Rosie Shute more...
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Don't believe the spin on thorium being a ‘greener’ nuclear option
Eifion Rees
23rd June, 2011
It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a 'greener' fuel. The Ecologist reports more...
Power: keeping it green
Henry Gass
3rd June, 2011
Angela Merkel’s decision to dispense with nuclear power has left environmentalists around the world exploring alternatives. Henry Gass weighs up the options more...
Why UK nuclear power plants may cause childhood cancer and leukaemia
Dr Paul Dorfman
16th May, 2011
You won't hear the UK government admit it but after decades of research there is now evidence of real excesses of childhood cancer and leukaemia near some nuclear facilities, argues Dr Paul Dorfman more...
Should future generations be forced to deal with our nuclear legacy?
Tom Levitt
13th May, 2011
In producing nuclear power we are taking the benefits today but leaving the burden of cleaning up waste and accident risks to future generations, argues a study on nuclear ethics more...
How one town foiled energy giant ‘bribes’ over renewable grid
William McLennan and Tom Antebi
9th May, 2011
As Germany attempts to abandon nuclear power, one small town has successfully overcome industry intimidation and begun its own post-nuclear age more... Fukushima fall-out: why the nuclear industry's liability for an accident is too low
Dr Paul Dorfman
21st March, 2011
With Japan's nuclear catastrophe still far from resolved, Dr Paul Dorfman argues why nuclear remains 'economically unreliable' and why it will be the taxpayer who ends up being liable as well as facing all the risks more...
France pushes its faith in nuclear around the world
Terry Macalister, guardian energy editor
24th March, 2011
The French government is championing energy giants EDF and Areva as they try to build their nuclear businesses around the world more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Neil Kingsnorth, head of activism at Friends of the Earth
Matilda Lee
22nd March, 2011
The Ecologist talks to Neil Kingsnorth about Friends of the Earth's most (and least) successful campaigns and why community groups are vital to the future of UK activism more...
TAKE ACTION on nuclear power
Matilda Lee
18th March, 2011
With the Japanese nuclear disaster still unfolding, make your voice heard on Britain's sustainable energy future: say no to nuclear... more...
Lessons for Japan from the Chernobyl catastrophe
Ian Sample, guardian science correspondent
18th March, 2011
The Fukushima nuclear plant crisis appears less dangerous than the 1986 Chernobyl disaster – but the risk of radiation spreading wide remains more...
EU 'ignoring safety risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine
Tom Levitt
17th March, 2011
As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, the EU is financing a controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry consumers in western Europe. Tom Levitt reports more...
Fukushima crisis raises fresh concerns over UK nuclear energy expansion
Kate Hudson
14th March, 2011
The UK should suspend its plans to build new nuclear power stations after the leak of radioactive material from the Fukushima plant in Japan, says Kate Hudson from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)more...
Underwater nuclear power stations destined for the English Channel?
Robert Williams
15th February, 2011
Plans for undersea nuclear power reactors around the coast of France could see a boom in uptake of the technology - but serious questions about costs and waste disposal remain unanswered more...Members
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