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Why greens must learn to love nuclear power - I have great respect for Mark Lynas but on this occasion he seems to be completely wrong - putting his faith in fast breeder reactors for heaven's sake! The reactors may work well enough, the problems are in managing a massive global plutonium cycle, predicated on reprocessing unbelievably dangerous high level nuclear waste in a safe way, without significant releases of radiation ... all over the world. We wouldn't feed our dogs Chinese pet food (contaminated with toxic melamine) so how come we can trust them to undertake a huge plutonium reprocessing exercise - when we can't even do it ourselves (as demonstrated by Sellafield)? Published in the New Statesman, 18 September 2008.
The future will not be nuclear - writing in Prospect magazine (September 2008, issue 150), Tom Burke deftly demolishes the case for a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK. "The government is pinning its hopes on a nuclear renaissance to meet Britain's climate change goals. Planning procedures are being eased and hidden subsidies offered. But the policy is based on a misunderstanding of nuclear power's lousy economics, and will fail ... "
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) was founded in 1978 in the US as an information and networking center for citizens and environmental activists concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues. It provides excellent information, fact sheets etc covering all aspects of nuclear power.
Government gives nuclear go-ahead - we review the Government's announcement of 10 January 2008.
World Nuclear News - "WNN is an online service supported by the World Nuclear Association and the World Nuclear University. One of it's primary aims is to make factual, accurate information on nuclear developments available to the general public and professionals in nuclear and related industries. In addition, WNN aims to help mainstream journalists and industry communicators by using WNA and WNU expertise and contacts to place nuclear news items in full context."
Why we don't need nuclear power - page by the "from greenhouse to green house" campaign.
Walt Patterson on nuclear power - "By the beginning of the 1990s I thought that rational argument and cumulative confirmation of our skeptical prognoses had finally carried the day. I was overjoyed to move on to less troubling, more positive topics. Alas, nuclear proponents have now found a new generation of the gullible. The claims of the proponents, nevertheless, have long since been tested and found wanting. Those interested can find ample historical evidence on this website, and yet more in the Patterson Nuclear Collection ... "
Nuclear Power Dossier - Uranium Mining and Milling - Jon Hughes investigates the problems of Uranium supply for The Ecologist. "The government's chief scientist Sir David King has talked about doubling capacity in the UK, to around 30 per cent. Japan envisages building another 30 reactors, the US around 10-15. If nuclear capacity doubles in size, then the ore is going to run out in 20 years. Under such circumstances there is no guaranteed price stability. The spot market price has risen 600 per cent in the past four years amid talk that nuclear capacity is to double in size. In turn there will be no security of supply ... "
Paying to be propagandised - BNFL, the controversial nuclear company, is at the heart of the multi-million pound PR and lobbying campaign for new nuclear power stations in the UK. Yet the publicly-owned company refuses to divulge important details of how it seeks to manipulate public opinion and governmental support. Chris Grimshaw writes for Corporate Watch, October / November 2006.
The Green Party of England and Wales.