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Does the European Pressurised Reactor have a future?

Can the recent Chinese success story save the technology’s reputation or is it already too late?

Quoting Prof Steve Thomas.

Power Technology, 5th December 2019

nuClear News No.120

The December issue of the newsletter from No 2 Nuclear Power, keeping climate campaigners informed about nuclear developments in the UK, and anti-nuclear campaigners about climate issues.

By Pete Roche

No 2 Nuclear Power, 4th December 2019

Our children await a radioactive legacy

The lethal waste that current governments still cannot make safe.

By Paul Brown

Climate News Network, 26th November 2019

Uranium bulls ‘as rare as white unicorns’

The market is “sick and dying” with uranium “quickly becoming a dinosaur of a commodity” — FNArena.

By Dr Jim Green

ON LINE Opinion, 26th November 2019

Labour’s progressive manifesto let down by stance on Trident

Guardian Letter

By Dr Ian Fairlie

The Guardian, 25th November 2019

Does Chernobyl Still Matter?

Since it first announced electricity “too cheap to meter,” in the 1950s, the nuclear industry has promised bountiful futures powered by a peaceful—and safe—atom.

By Gabrielle Hecht

Public Books, 22nd November 2019