NASA scientist James Hansen is heading to COP21 in Paris to berate climate campaigners for failing to support 'safe and environmentally-friendly nuclear power', writes Jim Green. But they would gladly support nuclear power if only it really was safe and environment friendly. In fact, it's a very dangerous and hugely expensive distraction from the real climate solutions.
Don't nuke the climate! James Hansen's nuclear fantasies exposed Dr Jim Green | 20th November 2015 News Climate Change Energy Nuclear Technology ohi-japan-cut.jpg NASA scientist James Hansen is …
It was 28 years ago today that Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine ruptured and ignited, sending a massive plume of radiation across Europe. Jim Green assesses the scientific evidence for how many people died as a result of the catastrophe.
… UNSCEAR itself co-authored a report which cites an estimate from an international expert …
A decline in the number of power reactors and escalating battles over reactor lifespan extensions and decommissioning approaches.
Nuclear decommissioning era approaches Jim Green - Nuclear Monitor | 29th January 2019 Comment Nuclear Power 8657963686_b08c221552_b.jpg A decline in the number of power reactors and escalating …
Just as climate change deniers leap from scientific uncertainty over the precise impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to certainty of little or no impact at all, so 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' conflate uncertainty of the mortality arising from Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters to certainty of few if any deaths, writes Jim Green. Their position is equally indefensible.
Radiation harm deniers? Pro-nuclear environmentalists and the Chernobyl death toll Dr Jim Green | 7th April 2016 News Nuclear Health Science Radiation WMD Ukraine Belarus doll.jpg Just as climate …
Australia's Aboriginal people have long been mistreated by governments and industry in the pursuit of nuclear projects. The attitudes of 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' or 'ecomodernists' towards Aboriginal people is as disrespectful as those of governments and industry, argues JIM GREEN.
Aboriginal First Nations and Australia's 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' Jim Green - Nuclear Monitor | 10th July 2018 Comment Indigenous Peoples Aboriginals Nuclear Waste Racism Ecomodernism Uranium …
Decades of deceit have been thrown overboard with the new nuclear sales pitch, argues JIM GREEN. The new sales pitch openly links nuclear power to weapons and argues that weapons programs will be jeopardised unless greater subsidies are provided for the civil nuclear industry
… be encouraged to develop nuclear weapons. He cites long-term nuclear weapons proliferation … a balance of military power is restored". He cites a German academic who argues that a …
'Fast breeder' reactors are promoted by nuclear enthusiasts as the clean, green energy technology of the future, writes Jim Green. But all the evidence tells us they are a catastrophic failure: complex, expensive, unreliable and accident-prone. Is Japan's decision to abandon its Monju reactor the latest nail in the coffin of a dead technology? Or the final stake through its rotten heart?
… Australian nuclear lobbyist Geoff Russell cites the World Nuclear Association (WNA) in …
Nuclear is flatlining Dr Jim Green | 1st March 2023 | Comment Nuclear Power Energy 52340771440_08a4f8182e_k.jpg There is no clear future for nuclear. Nuclear power remains stagnant and only an …
Small modular reactors are being heavily promoted but the economics don't stack up.
An obituary for small modular reactors Jim Green - Nuclear Monitor | 11th March 2019 News Nuclear Power Science & Systems smr_carem.jpg Small modular reactors are being heavily promoted but the …
Nuclear energy is essential to preserve the world's biodiversity, according to 69 conservation scientists. But there's a mysterious omission in their analysis, writes Jim Green: nuclear weapons proliferation. And after a major exchange of nuclear bombs, and the 'nuclear winter' that would follow, exactly how much biodiversity would survive?
Nuclear power and biodiversity - don't forget WMD proliferation! Dr Jim Green | 18th December 2014 News Nuclear Energy WMD Biodiversity Science Climate Change one-bomb-ruin-day-cut.jpg Nuclear energy …