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? Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG) comprises leading academics and experts. It is telling that such a group speaks with one collective voice.
After Fukushima
As the human, environmental and energy policy consequences following the Fukushima nuclear accident continues to unfold, whatever your view of the risks or benefits of nuclear fission, it's clear that the possibility of further catastrophic nuclear accident around the world is ever present. After Fukushima there's still time to learn fundamental lessons about more safe, secure, economically sound and environmentally sustainable ways to power our societies.
MPs and academics call for National Audit Office to review nuclear negotiations, The Telegraph, 6 April 2013
Cross Party MPs letter to National Audit Office on nuclear negotiations, 27 March 2013
The New UK Nuclear Power Programme – a Fit For Nuclear and a Blueprint For Illegal State Aid?, Prof Steve Thomas and Dr Dörte Fouquet on behalf of Greens/EFA Group – European Parliament, March 2013
Nuclear power – a flawed case: part 2: why we should say ‘no’ to nuclear now, Prof Andrew Blowers, Town & Country Planning, February 2013
Late Lessons from Chernobyl, Early Warnings from Fukushima, Dr Paul Dorfman, Nuclear Monitor, 7 February 2013
UK Energy Bill and New Nuclear, An All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group and Nuclear Consulting Group Event, House of Commons, Westminster, 29 January 2013
Viewpoint: European Environment Agency: Late Lessons from Chernobyl, Early Warnings from Fukushima, Dr Paul Dorfman, Greenpeace Energy Desk, 29 January 2013
Nuclear power – a flawed case: part 1: why we don’t need nuclear now, Prof Andrew Blowers, Town & Country Planning, January 2013
The legacy of Fukushima: Two years on, Prof Dave Elliott, OurWorld 2.0, 25 January 2013
Paul Dorfman, Aleksandra Fucic and Stephen Thomas: ‘Late lessons from Chernobyl, early warnings from Fukushima’ in: Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation; Part C: Emerging Issues, European Environment Agency, 23 January 2013
BBC1 science show 'downplayed impact' of Chernobyl: Nuclear disaster - Bang Goes the Theory was 'extremely selective' in figures used about deaths resulting from Ukraine accident, trust rules, Mark Sweney, The Guardian, 11 December 2012
Dr Paul Dorfman, NCG, BBC Editorial Appeal: Bang goes the Theory, BBC1, Sept 2012
The result of the energy bill bunfight is Lib Dems 4, Tories 0, Prof Tom Burke, The Guardian, 29 November 2012
The energy bill: what’s the real cost? Dr Paul Dorfman, The Ecologist, 21 November 2012
Fukushima: Impacts and Implications, Prof Dave Elliott, Palgrave Macmillan, published 30 October 2012
We must impose a carbon limit on new electricity generation here and now, Prof Keith Barnham, The Guardian, 23 October 2012
Government to rip up rulebook and subsidise new nuclear plants, The Independent, 22 October 2012
Letter: Who pays the nuclear power bill?, Dr Paul Dorfman, Dr David Toke, Professor Andy Stirling, Dr Nick Eyre, Professor Tom Burke, Jeremy Leggett, Professor Peter A Strachan, Andrew Warren, Professor Brian Wynne, The Independent, 21 October 2012
Will the Government Write a Blank Cheque for Nuclear Construction?, Dr Dave Toke, Huffington Post, 18 October 2012
New nuclear costs could squeeze renewables from UK energy mix, Prof Tom Burke, The Guardian, 16 October 2012
Don't Block the Sun, Jeremy Leggett, The New York Times, 14 October 2012
Should China be involved in the UK's nuclear energy infrastructure?, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Guardian, 21 September 2012
Where’s the energy to keep fighting for the planet?, Jonathon Porritt, The Independent, 15 June 2012
Britain’s energy future lies in renewables and energy saving, not nuclear power, Craig Bennett, Friends of the Earth, 14 June 2012
Nuclear Europe: a dream unwinding, Prof Steve Thomas, chinadialogue, 6 June 2012
The National Politics of Nuclear Power: Economics, security, and governance, Prof Benjamin Sovacool and Prof Scott Victor Valentine, Routledge, 24 May 2012
Nuclear power is more expensive than offshore wind, Dr 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, Prof Tom Burke, Jonathon Porritt, Charles Secrett and Tony Juniper, 2 May 2012
The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World’s Most Dangerous Fuel, Dr Martin Cohen and Andrew McKillop, Palgrave Macmillan, 26 Apr 2012
Nuclear industry dreams dashed by current economic reality, Dr Martin Cohen, The Guardian, 2 April 2012
Letter on Nuclear Power to the Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Prime Minister, from Jonathon Porritt, Prof Tom Burke, Tony Juniper and Charles Secrett, 13 March 2012
Nuclear sites, sea-level rise and tsunamis, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Guardian, 12 March 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
Nuclear Power: UK out on a limb, Prof Dave Elliott, 29 February 2012
Renewed push for nuclear power, John Sauven, Prof Tom Burke, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Guardian, 8 February 2012
Prospects for Nuclear Power 2012, Prof Steve Thomas, Commodities Now, 30 January 2012
Nuclear Communities: listen and be heard, Nuclear Consulting Group, Ipswich Town Hall, 29 November 2011
Nuclear Communities: listen and be heard, Nuclear Consulting Group, Bristol Colston Hall, 9 November 2011
Keynote Westminster Seminar, Fukushima: lessons learned for UK new nuclear build, Nuclear Consulting Group, House of Commons, 14 June 2011
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
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010–2011, Mycle Schneider, Anthony Froggatt, Prof Steve Thomas, April 2011
Fukishima a slow motion disaster, Dr Paul Dorfman, ABC Radio Australia, 13 April 2011
Will Fukushima be more disastrous than Chernobyl?, Dr Paul Dorfman, Prof Gerry Thomas, ABC Radio Australia, 13 April 2011
Who to Trust on Nuclear, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Guardian, 13 April 2011
No definitive answers in the nuclear debate, Prof Andy Stirling, The Guardian, 6 April 2011
New Thinking Now Needed on New Nuclear, Prof Steve Thomas, Parliamentary Brief, 4 April 2011
Nuclear Liability, Fiscal Dexterity and Energy Futures, Dr Paul Dorfman, Energy World, March 2011
George Monbiot is wrong. Nuclear power is not the way to fight climate change, Jeremy Leggett, The Guardian, 24 March 2011
Fukushima shows us the real cost of nuclear power, Craig Bennett, The Guardian, 23 March 2011
Fukushima fall-out: why the nuclear industry's liability for an accident is too low, Dr Paul Dorfman, The Ecologist, 21 March 2011
Nuclear risks and the renewable alternatives, Prof Keith Barnham, The Guardian, 16 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