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Environmental Research Web Blog - excellent blog on renewable energy developments in the UK and beyond - updated frequently with all the latest news by the redoubtable Dave Elliott.
Romania petition against nuclear reactors - sign now to oppose the construction of two new CANDU reactors at Cernavoda in an earthquake zone in SE Romania. This obsolete Canadian reactor design leaks tritium (radioactive hydrogen) from its heavy water coolant, and represents a nuclear proliferation hazard from plutonium production.
No2NuclearPower Daily News Roundup of 24 September 2011 announces Nuclear Pledge relaunch.
Siemens Abandons Nuclear Power - Karl Grossman reports for Counterpunch, 19 September 2011. "The just-announced decision by Siemens, a major player in the nuclear industry, to withdraw entirely from nuclear power is a significant declaration by a corporation about nuclear power and the world's potential energy future ... ".
Energy Fair is a small NGO with a big punch, as it files complaints with the European Commission against the UK's unlawful state aid to nuclear power.
Fukushima spoils world appetite for nuclear power - reports Deutsche Welle, 9 September 2011. "Several months after the nuclear disaster in Japan, market research company Ipsos asked citizens in 24 countries how they feel about atomic energy. In all but three of them - India, the United States and Poland - there was consensus that the time has come for cleaner, safer sources of power." That includes the UK where just over half now oppose nuclear power!
Subsidies for nuclear power in the UK government's proposals for electricity market reform 1 - this report by Energy Fair describes how the UK government's proposals for electricity market reform add up to a huge new raft of subsidies for nuclear power. "The Energy and Climate Change Committee, amongst others, has said that the proposals have the effect of introducing new subsidies for nuclear power. The purpose of this document is to examine the new proposals to identify and describe those parts of the proposals that have the effect of creating new subsidies for nuclear power.". The 13-page report is available as a PDF.
Nuclear Subsidies - Energy Fair reviews the scale and structure of subsidies to the nuclear industry. "The purpose of this report, prepared by the Energy Fair group, is to highlight the several subsidies for nuclear power, many of which are hidden from view. As detailed later, calculations by actuarial specialists show that withdrawal of just one of those subsidies (limitations on liabilities) would increase the price of nuclear electricity to levels that would make it entirely uncompetitive ...". Updated September 2011.
ENE News - the leading up-to-date source of news stories on nuclear issues in the post-Fukushima era.
Fairewinds Associates - a consultancy on nuclear power and related issues. Arnie Gunderson is an energy advisor with 39 years of nuclear power engineering experience. A former nuclear industry senior vice president, he earned his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in nuclear engineering, holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and managed projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the US. He currently speaks on television, radio, and at public meetings on the need for a new paradigm in energy production. Watch his devastating critiques of the nuclear industry, from his unique insider perspective.