Nuclear Consulting Group
The website aims to provide clear and independent information and analysis of the range of nuclear new build issues, and ask questions that need to be answered, including: how will significant ‘what if’ issues — such as nuclear fuel supply and manufacture, vulnerability to attack, accident and incident, rad-waste, radiation risk, decommissioning, reactor siting, nuclear costs and liabilities — be taken into account?
Post-Fukushima
The human and environmental nuclear tragedy at the stricken Fukushima site continues to unfold. Although there seems little can be done to mitigate the long-term effects of this disaster, there still is time to learn fundamental lessons for the UK and for the world.
Nuclear power is more expensive than offshore wind, Dave Toke, 5 May 2012
The eye-watering expense of nuclear power, Jonathon Porritt, The Guardian, 4 May 2012
UK Energy Policy Will Fail If Government Persists With Nuclear Fantasies, Tom Burke, Jonathon Porritt, Charles Secrett and Tony Juniper, 2 May 2012
Nuclear Risk Assessment post-Fukushima Dai-ichi, Dr Paul Dorfman, Energy & Environmental Management, 12 March 2012
Fukushima – it is a moral issue, Prof Andrew Blowers, Town & Country Planning, March 2012
Nucléaire nouvelle génération. Non merci!, Prof Tom Burke, ENDS Report, February 2012
Prospects for Nuclear Power 2012, Prof Steve Thomas, Commodities Now, 30 January 2012
Why UK nuclear power plants may cause childhood cancer and leukaemia, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Ecologist, 16 May 2011
Nuclear Debate: Not just about the stress tests, Dr John Walls, Public Service Europe, 13 May 2011
Who to Trust on Nuclear, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Guardian, 13 April 2011
New Thinking Now Needed on New Nuclear, Prof Steve Thomas, Parliamentary Brief, 4 April 2011
Fukushima fall-out: why the nuclear industry's liability for an accident is too low, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Ecologist, 21 March 2011
Japan neglected nuclear lessons, Prof Andy Stirling, STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability), 16 March 2011
Phasing out nuclear in Japan, Prof Dave Elliott, Environmental Research Web. March 2011
30 Years on and Still Waiting for an Answer, Andrew Warren, Energy in Buildings and Industry, 2 Feb 2011
Fukushima: Dr Paul Dorfman interview
Nuclear Consulting Group Report
The Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG) comprise leading UK academics and experts in the fields of environmental risk, radiation waste, energy policy, environmental sustainability, renewable energy technology, energy economics, political science, nuclear weapons proliferation, science and technology studies, environmental justice, environmental philosophy, particle physics, energy efficiency, environmental planning, and participatory involvement. It is telling that such a group speaks with one collective voice. The Report opens up what has been a closely constrained energy debate.