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Renewable Energy: Can it Deliver?
Renewable energy had already been strongly promoted as a response to climate change and air pollution problems, but now they are being pushed as part of the post-Covid recovery.
By Prof David Elliott
Polity, 10th July 2020
Sinop Nuclear Plant: Turkey seeks an EIA without a company for a reference reactor
The final EIA process has been initiated for Turkey’s proposed second nuclear power plant project. However, the EIA which was started to evaluate the impact of the nuclear power plant to its surroundings neither has a valid agreement nor a company to be commissioned for the construction of reactors!
By Pinar Demircan
DiaNuke.org, 4th July 2020
UK’s nuclear plans flounder through muddy dispute
Arguments over where to dump huge amounts of potentially radioactive mud are now ensnarling the UK’s nuclear plans.
By Paul Brown
Climate News Network, 3rd July 2020
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‘The Sizewell C plans are an insult to the people of Suffolk’
Anyone new to Suffolk, ignorant of EDF’s nuclear plans, would be forgiven for laughing out loud. An untried reactor, labelled ‘technically complicated to construct’ by its own designers, a cost of £20billion-plus, taking at least 10 years to build, producing waste which is not only lethal to living tissue but … [Continue Reading]