The Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe may have scared most of the world off nuclear power, write Jan Haverkamp & Iryna Holovko. But mysteriously, not Ukraine, where the reactor meltdown actually took place. Thirty years on more than half of Ukraine's electricity is still nuclear, while the power sector is dominated by powerful oligarchs. So what are the chances of a post-nuclear Ukraine?
… Chernobyl, what chance of a post-nuclear Ukraine? Jan Haverkamp Iryna Holovko | 26th April 2016 Comment Ukraine Nuclear Energy Renewables Solar Russia … & Iryna Holovko. But mysteriously, not Ukraine, where the reactor meltdown actually …
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
… risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine Tom Levitt | 17th March 2011 News Nuclear Energy Ukraine EU Renewables Radiation nuclearukraine.jpg Anti-nuclear activists are …
The French government is championing energy giants EDF and Areva as they try to build their nuclear businesses around the world
… risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, … controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry …
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
… risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, … controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry …
The EU, nervous about disruption to gas supplies across an increasingly unstable Ukraine, is planning a European 'supergrid' linking all 28 member states to increase resilience, writes Paul Brown. The development will be a boon to renewable energy generation, and cut emissions from fossil fuels.
… gas supplies across an increasingly unstable Ukraine, is planning a European 'supergrid' …
The controversial gas-extraction process known as 'fracking' is safe, says UK-based Cuadrilla Resources, and not a threat to ground or surface water supplies
… France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ukraine and the UK. It is seen as an important …
Hopes of strengthening Britain’s energy security are often pinned on the fossil fuel industry says Vicente López-Ibor Mayor, as exemplified by the hysteria over the claimed 'discovery' of 100 billion barrels of oil beneath Gatwick airport. But the real long-term solution lies with abundant and ever cheaper decentralised renewables.
… in energy relations of late. The Ukraine conflict, the widespread use of energy …
Th latest IPCC climate change report says that averting catastrophe is eminently affordable, reports Damian Carrington. A global roll-out of clean energy would shave only a tiny fraction off economic growth, and bring huge benefits in clean air and energy security.
… the actions of major gas-producer Russia in Ukraine. The new IPCC report warns that carbon …
A report published ahead of tomorrow's UN Climate Summit shows that we can meet all our energy needs from renewables, writes Paul Brown - poor nations and prosperous, tiny islands and great cities, in any part of the globe. And some are doing it already ....
… accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, and has now opted to go for 100% …
The move amounts to a U-turn on the PM’s opposition to building new turbines onshore as set out in his failed first bid for the Conservative leadership.
… energy independence as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has squeezed supplies. Sir Keir …
Nuclear power was originally sold on a lie, writes Dave Elliott. While we were being told it would make electricity 'too cheap to meter', insiders knew it cost at least 50% more than conventional generation. Since then nuclear costs have only risen, while renewable energy prices are on a steep decline. And now the nuclear behemoths are crumbling ... not a moment too soon.
… Then came the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine in 1986, with the cloud spreading …
Energy 'too cheap to meter? This time it could be true thanks to the fast rising proportion of zero marginal cost renewable power in our electricity system, writes Roger Kemp. But that has profound implications for how we pay for our electricity - indeed the entire electricity market and consumer pricing system must be radically rethought.
… coal prices at a time when the situation in Ukraine has left gas supplies uncertain. …
With the Government wilfully undermining the UK's small but fast-growing solar power sector for the second time, Jonathon Porritt wonders ... why the attacks on what is our second lowest cost source of renewable energy, and getting cheaper all the time?
… about both energy security (think Iraq, Ukraine etc) and climate change …
The wind is a force of nature over which only someone with extraordinary delusions of grandeur can truly claim ownership, writes Adam Ramsay. But to prevent that, we must assert our belief that wind, sun and other drivers of our renewable future are a common heritage for us all to benefit from.
… strikes; from the invasion of Iraq to gas in Ukraine; from ISIS' dependence on …
The European coordinator of international climate campaign group 350.org talks to the Ecologist about civil disobedience outside the White House and why she's gearing up for September 24th
… who's building the youth climate movement in Ukraine to Sarah who's organizing one of the …
Don't believe the spurious claims of nuclear shills constantly doing down renewables, writes Mark Diesendorf. Clean, safe renewable energy technologies have the potential to supply 100% of the world's electricity needs - but the first hurdle is to refute the deliberately misleading myths designed to promote the politically powerful but ultimately doomed nuclear industry.
… of international medical researchers from Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere . See also Dr …