Publications

ENE News - the leading up-to-date source of news stories on nuclear issues in the post-Fukushima era.
Rocky Mountain Institute publications on nuclear power - a highly impressive collection of reports, presentations and other documents which demonstrate the futility of nuclear power as a solution to our energy supply problems and to climate change.
Where will Blair hide his nuclear tax bombshell - report by the Liberal Democrats on the crazy costs of nuclear power and how Blair intends to get us to pay for it. By Edward Davey MP and David Howarth MP, June 2006.
Balance of Power is a report by Ilex for WWF which shows that the idea of an impending "energy gap" which can only be filled by nuclear power is a myth. Carbon dioxide emissions could be cut by 43-55 per cent from 1990 levels by 2025 without the need for new nuclear capacity by a combination of conservation and renewable generation, while reducing our fuel bills.
Keeping the Lights on: Nuclear, Renewables, and Climate Change - report by the Green Party of England & Wales, October 2005. "It is as economically plausible to give away, at the taxpayer's expense, a renewable energy installation to half the homes in the country, and let them keep the free electricity, as it is to build nuclear power stations to a new design that has never been tested in production. It is probably more popular as well."
The CO2 emission of the nuclear life-cycle - chapter 1 of Nuclear power: the energy balance by Jan Willem Storm van Leeuven and Philip Smith (2005). This paper sets out a comparison between the CO2 emissions of CCGT gas and nuclear power stations over a typical 25 year lifetime. It finds that the balance is surprisingly fine: with current rich, soft U ores, nuclear power emits 30% of the CO2 of gas. As we move to hard granite ores with lower U concentrations (as we must given the finite resources of 'sweet' ores) the position drastically worsens until the balance turns negative around 0.01% U3O8 in the ore. "The factor 3.3 gain in CO2 emission (compared to gas-burning plants) provided by nuclear energy, achieved with the presently available rich ores, is a very temporary gain and not a basis for policy decision concerning society's future energy supply."
Uranium Supply and the Nuclear Option - "To decide how valid an option nuclear energy is we must understand the limitations on the availability of uranium, and the current state of reactor technology. There are many uncertainties about how the nuclear industry might develop in the future, but it is possible to conclude that the supply of uranium, at a level that could support large-scale power generation, might only be viable for a matter of decades. Potentially, could a shortage of uranium be the Achilles-heel of the nuclear industry that, so far, the anti-nuclear lobby have missed?" paper by Paul Mobbs for Oxford Energy Forum, the quarterly journal of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Issue 61, May 2005.
Renewable Energy - the National Audit Office report of February 2005.
Reprocessing the Truth - The Ecologist's response to the Windscale Report, published as a pamphlet in 1978 and now available in full online. It was written by Ecologist editors Edward Goldsmith, Peter Bunyard and Nicholas Hildyard. Plus ça change ...