There's an Alice in Wonderland flavour to the nuclear power debate, writes Jim Green. Lobbyists are promoting all sorts of new reactor types - an implicit admission that existing reactors aren't up to the job. But the designs they are promoting have two severe problems. They don't exist. And they have no customers.
'New' reactor types are all nuclear pie in the sky Jim Green | 2nd October 2014 News Technology Nuclear Corporations Energy ebr-argonne-cut.jpg There's an Alice in Wonderland flavour to the nuclear …
Four years ago today the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl took place at Fukushima, Japan. Total clean-up costs are estimated around $0.5 trillion, writes Jim Green - but work to defuse the dangers has barely begun, the site is flooded with radioactive water making its way to the sea, and underpaid and illegally contracted workers are suffering a rising toll of death and injury.
All fouled up - Fukushima four years after the catastrophe Jim Green | 11th March 2015 News Nuclear Energy Japan Pollution Corporations fukushima-water-sampling-cut.jpg Four years ago today the …
The European Commission has confirmed that it will drop its 'circular economy' package, writes James Crisp, in the face of protest by MEPs and environment ministers. The EC's insistence that a future version would be 'improved' - but in in unspecified ways - only raised suspicions of a deregulatory coup by Europe's dirtiest businesses.
Europe's 'circular economy' waste laws binned despite MEPs' fury James Crisp EurActiv | 26th January 2015 News Waste EU Politics Corporations dump-cut.jpg The European Commission has confirmed that …
Forty years ago Monsanto carried out detailed studies of glyphosate and Roundup toxicity, write Richard Gale & Gary Null. But they have remained buried in filing cabinets ever since. Now a determined scientist has breached the wall of secrecy - and all the evidence is that Monsanto knew just how toxic its products were all along, while claiming they were 'safe as lemonade'.
Monsanto knew all along! Secret studies reveal the truth of Roundup toxicity Richard Gale Gary Null Progressive Radio Network | 18th September 2015 News Health Toxics Corporations Science Regulation …