The latest nuclear power ‘renaissance’ is going in reverse.
Nuclear hype in meltdown Dr Jim Green | 2nd February 2024 | Comment Nuclear Power Energy Editor’s Picks home-slider-copy.jpg The latest nuclear power ‘renaissance’ is going in reverse. Nuclear power …
The clean-up after the February 2014 explosion at the world's only deep underground repository for nuclear waste in New Mexico, USA, is massively over budget, writes Jim Green - and full operations won't resume until at least 2021. The fundamental cause of the problems: high level radioactive waste, poor regulation, rigid deadlines and corporate profit make a dangerous mix.
WIPP nuclear waste accident will cost US taxpayers $2 billion Dr Jim Green | 20th September 2016 News Nuclear Waste Energy Pollution US Corporations wipp-level_b_suits-cut.jpg The clean-up after the …
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
Nuclear power lobbyist Michael Shellenberger learns to love the bomb Dr Jim Green | 20th September 2018 Comment Nuclear Power Nuclear Weapons Uranium WMD osirak_reactor_damage.jpg Decades of deceit …
World Bank President Jim Kim talks a good talk on cutting support to fossil fuels. But what the bank does, writes Victoria Seabrook, is a whole other story. Not only is the WB Group still pouring money into the sector, but its funding doubled between 2011 and 2015.
World Bank doubles fossil fuel funding in four years Victoria Seabrook DeSmog.uk | 18th April 2016 News Finance Fossil Fuels Climate Change Emissions COP21 jim-kim-cut.jpg World Bank President Jim …
Emboldened by the Tory election victory and the appointment of Amber Rudd as energy Secretary, writes Ben Lucas, planning applications to frack have been coming in thick and fast - even in densely populated London boroughs.
Fracking surge follows Tory election win Ben Lucas DeSmog.uk | 31st May 2015 News Fracking UK Politics Energy Fossil Fuels fracking-balcombe-protest-cut.jpg Emboldened by the Tory election victory …
This week Finland cancelled its option for a second European Pressurised Reactor as the existing EPR project sinks into a abyss of cost over-runs, delays and litigation, writes Jim Green. It now looks like the EPR is a failed technology and its owner, French nuclear giant Areva, is fast running out of both money and orders as its 'hot prospects' evaporate.
Finland cancels Olkiluoto 4 nuclear reactor - is the EPR finished? Dr Jim Green Oliver Tickell | 15th May 2015 News Nuclear Corporations Energy Finance UK China France olkiluoto-snow-cut.jpg This …
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 …
Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.
Nuclear renaissance? Failing industry is running flat out to stand still Dr Jim Green | 30th January 2016 News Nuclear Technology Energy China UK France USA tihange-cut.jpg Despite the endless …
Shale gas company Cuadrilla will appeal Lancashire's decision to refuse permission to frack, write Kyla Mandel & Ben Lucas. The planning battle will last well into 2016, as campaigners prepare to fight all the way.
Cuadrilla will appeal Lancashire's fracking refusal Kyla Mandel Ben Lucas DeSmog.uk | 24th July 2015 News Energy Fracking UK Corporations frack-off-lancs.jpg Shale gas company Cuadrilla will appeal …
BP's plans to explore for oil in the deep seas of the Great Australian Bight came under fire today at the company's Annual General Meeting in London, writes Graham Readfearn. The drilling would risk the ocean's rich marine wildlife - while blowing a massive hole in Australia's COP21 emissions targets.
BP's deep sea oil exploration in South Australia - no way! Graham Readfearn DeSmog.uk | 14th April 2016 News Oil Energy Corporations Climate Change Oceans Pollution COP21 Emissions bunda cliffs - …
A new report from Friends of the Earth Australia details the catastrophic cost overruns with nuclear power projects.
Nuclear power's economic failure Dr Jim Green | 13th December 2021 | Comment Nuclear Power 1487px-barakah_nuclear_power_plant.jpg A new report from Friends of the Earth Australia details the …
2013 has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and the nuclear renaissance can now be pronounced stone cold dead. Dr Jim Green reveals the global unravelling of the nuclear dream ...
The nuclear renaissance is stone cold dead Dr Jim Green | 25th December 2013 News Nuclear Power Uranium Energy kakadu-uranium-mine.png 2013 has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and …
The global rebirth of nuclear power was meant to be well under way by now, writes Jim Green. But in fact, nuclear's share of world power generation is on a steady long term decline, and new reactors are getting ever harder to build, and finance. The only real growth area is decommissioning, but that too has a problem: where's the money to pay for it?
Running in reverse: the world's 'nuclear power renaissance' Dr Jim Green | 29th January 2015 News Nuclear Energy UK Japan EU USA France Germany Japan Saudi Arabia Africa …
Major funders of the pro-fossil fuel Global Warming Policy Foundation are always keen to speak out against public support for renewable energy, writes Brendan Montague. So how come they're so keen to help themselves to a fortune in farm subsidies?
Wind farm subsidies bad, farm subsidies good? Brendan Montague DeSmog.uk | 10th August 2013 Comment Energy Renewables Wind Economics Farming UK wind-turbines-co-durham-cut.jpg Major funders of the …
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 …
Several nuclear facilities in Ukraine have been attacked by the Russian military over the past fortnight.
Nuclear facilities targeted in war Dr Jim Green | 14th March 2022 | Comment Nuclear Nuclear Power Ukraine Chernobyl Energy Editor’s Picks zaporizhzhia_after_bombing.jpg Several nuclear facilities in …
World leaders are meeting in New York today to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, write Stephen Buranyi & Oliver Tickell. But the world just failed a big test of its commitment to the Paris targets by deadlocking on IMO proposals to limit emissions from international shipping.
Amid Paris Agreement fanfare world fails shipping emissions test Stephen Buranyi DeSmog.uk Oliver Tickell | 22nd April 2016 News Climate Change Transport Emissions COP21 Politics obama-cop21-cut.jpg …
'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?
Japan abandons Monju fast reactor: the slow death of a nuclear dream Dr Jim Green | 6th October 2016 News Nuclear Energy Technology Japan France Russia India China US Germany Italy …
Fraud, counterfeiting, bribery, corruption, sabotage, theft, and other criminal activities are rife in global nuclear industry.
Organised crime goes nuclear Dr Jim Green | 4th October 2021 | Comment Nuclear Power Renewable Energy Editor’s Picks 8657963646_e17ef19ccf_k.jpg Fraud, counterfeiting, bribery, corruption, sabotage, …
Climate scientist James Hansen's claims about Generation IV nuclear concepts simply don't stack up, argues JIM GREEN
James Hansen's Generation IV nuclear advocacy: a deconstruction of nuclear fallacies and fantasies Dr Jim Green | 3rd October 2017 News Hansen Green Nuclear Generation IV Waste Weapons 405374.jpg …
With the major party manifestos all published it's not just the Greens that oppose fracking, writes Mat Hope. It's also Labour and the Libdems. So who's left? The Tories of course, who are holding fast to the fracking faith, and even want to create a new special purpose regulator for the industry. Oh yes, and UKIP, which is also committed to abolishing the Climate Change Act.
Only Conservatives and UKIP back fracking in GE2017 Mat Hope DeSmog.uk | 18th May 2017 News Fracking Politics Climate Change Regulation fracking-police-cut.jpg With the major party manifestos all …
Energy secretary Amber Rudd promised 'a new solar revolution' for the UK, writes Kyla Mandel. But now the industry is braced for a massive round of cuts that could kill off the sector, just as it's on course to be the UK's first subsidy-free renewable power source in 2020.
Government turns fire on solar power Kyla Mandel DeSmog.uk | 20th July 2015 News Energy Renewables Nuclear UK Politics amber-rudd-solar-cut.jpg Energy secretary Amber Rudd promised 'a new solar …
As Lancashire councillors prepare to decide the planning application to frack in the county, writes Kyla Mandel, the UK's transparency watchdog has ordered the government to publish in full a report on the impacts of fracking, previously published only in a heavily redacted version.
Government ordered: release full fracking report! Kyla Mandel DeSmog.uk | 22nd June 2015 News Fracking UK Fossil Fuels cuadzilla-cut.jpg As Lancashire councillors prepare to decide the planning …
Nuclear energy is no solution to climate breakdown say 300 organisations internationally ahead of COP26.
Don't nuke the climate Dr Jim Green | 27th October 2021 | Comment Nuclear Power COP26 chutka_nuclear_plant.png Nuclear energy is no solution to climate breakdown say 300 organisations internationally …