At least a third of the food the world grows each year goes to waste, writes John Mandyck, most of it in fields, transport and storage. The result is poor farmers, hungry people, and a massive 3.3 billion tonnes of needless CO2 emissions. It should be a key topic for action at COP21 in Paris - but so far it's not even on the agenda.
… For climate's sake, let's cut food waste! John Mandyck | 17th September 2015 Comment Waste Food Technology Climate Change … of the food the world grows each year goes to waste, writes John Mandyck, most of it in …
The world produces over a billion tonnes a year of dangerously caustic wastes, write Helena Gomes, Mike Rogerson & Will Mayes. They are currently being dumped, although they could be used to sequester a gigatonne of CO2 from the atmosphere - while also yielding minerals essential for key renewable energy technologies.
… Industrial wastes could capture 1Gt a year of CO2 … Will Mayes | 15th November 2015 Comment Waste Climate Change Mining Climate Change … billion tonnes a year of dangerously caustic wastes, write Helena Gomes, Mike Rogerson & …
In February 2009 the Environment Agency began its first prosecution against an individual for an e-waste crime, and claims to have prevented 33 shipments in the previous six months.
… The dangers of e-waste Dr Keith Baker | 4th June 2009 News E-waste Technology Computers Technology … Computers Pollution Science And Technology e-waste_MAIN.jpg In February 2009 the …
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall has a done a great job exposing the scandal of Britain's billions of non-recyclable coffee cups, writes Rhodri Jenkins. But what about the coffee itself? The grounds can be used for everything from compost and biodiesel to boutique chemicals and supercapacitors - yet the vast majority of the world's 9m tonnes a year of waste coffee ends up in landfill.
… University of Bath | 2nd August 2016 Comment Waste Technology Media Drink Biofuels … majority of the world's 9m tonnes a year of waste coffee ends up in landfill. Many of us … world and, once we brew it, an awful lot of waste is created. The vast majority ends up in …
The Scottish Executive has firmly refused to have nuclear waste buried north of the border, when asked as part of a new government consultation exercise.
… Scotland says no to nuclear waste 27th June 2007 News Nuclear Waste Nuclear Power Radioactive Radioactivity … Scotland Scottish Executive Nuclear Waste Power Plants Energy Politics And …
The 'advanced' nuclear power sector is dystopian because of its connections to fossil fuel mining and nuclear weapons proliferation.
… Transatomic Power that was developing a 'Waste-Annihilating Molten-Salt Reactor'. … Power gave up on its plan to use nuclear waste as reactor fuel after its theoretical … calculations were proven to be false, and the waste-annihilating reactor was reinvented as a …
First we heat up cold water for baths, showers and washing, write Jan Hofman & Laura Piccinini. Then we chuck all that precious heat down the plughole. So how about recycling our waste heat to warm up water on its way to the boiler or hot water tank, cutting bills and emissions? Or on a larger scale, use the sewage from entire communities as a free energy source for heat pumps?
… down the plughole. So how about recycling our waste heat to warm up water on its way to the … sewage treatment works. Those drainage and waste water treatments again use energy. Water … We're already able to produce biogas from our waste, for instance, and use it to power the …
Nuclear enthusiasts have been singing the praises of nuclear reactors that use thorium as their fuel instead of uranium. Jan Beránek analyses the claims - and finds that thorium is a mere distraction on the way to our renewable future.
… Comment Nuclear Power Renewables UK USA th-u-waste-lifetime.png Nuclear enthusiasts have … reactor safety, production of dangerous waste, and last but not least, nuclear weapons … and 'cheap as chips' - it's produced as a waste product of rare earth mining. But the …
The nuclear industry is forever reinventing itself with one brilliant 'new' idea after another, Amory Lovins wrote in this classic 2009 essay. But whether it's touting the wonders of future SMRs, IFRs or LFTRs, the reality never changes: the reactors they are building right now are over time, over budget and beset by serious, entirely unforeseen technical problems.
… problems of economics, proliferation, and waste [2]. Even climate-protection pioneer Jim … as a solution to proliferation and nuclear waste. It's neither. Fast reactors were first … elements) in long-lived radioactive waste. Two or three redesigned IFRs could in …
Nuclear energy is no solution to climate breakdown say 300 organisations internationally ahead of COP26.
… From nuclear weapons tests to radioactive waste facilities the nuclear industry has a … risk from the nuclear industry as mining and waste storage primarily affects their lands … carbon neutral and poses unique security and waste management risks. We do not have the …
As the European Commission considers the £100 billion subsidy package the UK has offered EDF to build and operate Hinkley C nuclear power station, Paul Dorfman explains why the 'deal' is illegal, anti-renewables, and ruinous to energy users and tax payers.
… any new reactors, together with radioactive waste stores including spent fuel, will be on … operation, plant decommissioning and waste management. Whilst the reported range of … a major nuclear accident in Europe. Nuclear waste - the million year question There are …
The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies.
… – would remain vulnerable, as would nuclear waste stores. Spent fuel cooling ponds and dry … on one warring nation's nuclear reactors or waste stores could result in like-for-like … an inadvertent attack on reactors or nuclear waste stores is somewhat higher than a …
The UK's nuclear decommissioning authority has a problem - what to do with over 100 tonnes of plutonium. Jim Green evaluates the NDA's options, and sees another generation of nuclear white elephants in the making.
… with MOX has been disastrous - £1.4 billion wasted on a MOX fabrication plant at … into MOX would be immobilised and treated as waste for disposal." MOX amounts to an … in the US let alone any concrete pours. PRISM waste The NDA states that it has carried out a …
Last night's BBC Panorama programme did a good job at lifting the lid on Britain's ongoing nuclear disaster that is Sellafield, writes Ian Fairlie. But it failed to expose the full scandal of the UK's 'reprocessing' of spent fuel into 140 tonnes of plutonium, enough to build 20,000 nuclear bombs - while leaving £100s of billions of maintenance and cleanup costs to future generations.
… 2016 Reviews Nuclear Technology Politics Waste Pollution Energy WMD UK … plant is host to several hundred radioactive waste streams and processes which result in … "there is a mass of very hazardous [nuclear] waste onsite in storage conditions that are …
Irresponsible tactics are being used to bury social and environmental problems associated with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as Olympics approach in Japan.
… Fukushima Radiation Nuclear Power Nuclear Waste Editor’s Picks Thought Leaders … About 17 million cubic metres of contaminated waste material has accumulated during … facility ' for some of the contaminated waste. Contamination Decontamination work …
Battery technology is essential to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. But they must be more sustainable and easily disposable.
… The key is storage. Energy can still go to waste even with the greenest technology — … power into electricity. When power goes to waste, it brings the sustainability level of … breaking down, causing damage and becoming waste. E-waste occurs when an excessive amount …
The UK government is planning 75GW of new nuclear power, Jamie Doward reports - equivalent to 50 1.5GW reactors, or 25 dual-reactor Hinkley C's - enough to supply 86% of the UK's energy demand.
… a submission to a consultation on geological waste disposal, the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management has said an upper limit of … facilities that might be required for the waste that will be produced by new nuclear …
Several nuclear facilities in Ukraine have been attacked by the Russian military over the past fortnight.
… research facility at Kharkiv; two radioactive waste storage sites; the Chernobyl nuclear … Russian missiles hit a radioactive waste storage site near Kyiv on February 27. … 1 update: "SNRIU said that all radioactive waste disposal facilities of the State …
As plans go ahead for the UK’s first new nuclear plant in twenty years, Edgar Vaid reviews a film that takes a look at the issues surrounding the use of nuclear power by our neighbours across the Channel ...
… November 2013 Reviews Nuclear Power Nuclear Waste Film Reviews welcome to nuclear land.jpg … campaigner comments that although the nuclear waste is discharged from the pipeline quite … stance. Significantly, whilst German nuclear waste was sent to La Hague for re-processing, …
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.
… proliferation, and disposal of radioactive waste, which we have discussed in some detail … for it's claimed ability to burn up nuclear waste. Nuclear waste "is not waste" , he writes. "It is fuel …
Professor 'Jim' Al'Khalili's 'Inside Sellafield' programme was a tour de force of pro-nuclear propaganda, writes David Lowry - understating the severity of accidents, concealing the role of the UK's nuclear power stations in breeding military plutonium, and giving false reassurance over the unsolved problems of high level nuclear waste.
… the unsolved problems of high level nuclear waste. To mark the 70th anniversary of the … holding ponds stuffed full of nuclear waste, describing them as having simply been … storing spent fuel rods and other high level wastes. What he failed to mention was their …
The Gulf faces unique challenges when it comes to nuclear power - yet four reactors are under construction at Barakah.
… or intercept enriched uranium fuel or waste transfers nationally or regionally. Such … through to finished fuel rods, radioactive waste, and irradiated nuclear fuel (INF). High level waste (HLW) and INF cargo will travel out of …
An unexpected outcome of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is that the UK's Sellafield nuclear site - already the world's biggest plutonium repository - is set to store even more of the radioactive, fissionable metal.
… were produced from the UK's own nuclear waste, while 17 tonnes come from Japan and the … Oxide Reprocessing Plant), Britain's nuclear waste reprocessing plant at the 6-square … reprocesses Japan's large stocks of nuclear waste. In principle Japan wants to use that …
Think nuclear power and you probably thing of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless and constant supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
… Climate Change Uranium Nuclear Power Plants Waste Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate … and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate … emissions and controlled releases Nuclear waste Decommissioning A nuclear future? This …