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Global 2000 Conference: ‘Climate Crisis – Why nuclear is not helping’
Vienna, 7-8 Oct 2019
Speakers include Prof Steve Thomas and Dr Paul Dorfman.
Global 2000
10th Vienna Nuclear Symposium, ‘Nuclear energy use in times of climate change’
20th September, Universität Wien, Vienna
Speakers include Dr Paul Dorfman.
20th September 2019
INRAG General Assembly
20-21 September, Vienna
Speakers include Prof Steve Thomas and Dr Paul Dorfman.
20th September 2019
Big claims and corporate spin about small nuclear reactor costs
The ‘inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia’ being run by Federal Parliament’s Environment and Energy Committee has finished receiving submissions and is gradually making them publicly available.
By Dr Jim Green
Renew Economy, 19th September 2019
Should TEPCO / Japanese Government Dump Tritium-Contaminated Water from Fukushima into the Sea?
At the present time, over a million tonnes of tritium-contaminated water are being held in about a thousand tanks at the site of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station in Japan.
By Dr Ian Fairlie
Ian Fairlie’s Blog, 18th September 2019
NFLA response to the UK Government consultation on the Revenue Asset Base (RAB) financial model being proposed to assist the funding of new nuclear reactors
Sean Morris: Secretary/Principal Policy Officer, UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA).
Nuclear Free Local Authorities, 16th September 2019
EDF accumule les tracas dans le nucléaire, au risque d’arrêts coûteux
Quoting Dr Paul Dorfman.
Also in l’express, Zonebourse and Boursorama.
Capital, 13th September 2019
The ‘advanced’ nuclear power sector is dystopian
The ‘advanced’ nuclear power sector is dystopian because of its connections to fossil fuel mining and nuclear weapons proliferation.
By Dr Jim Green
Ecologist, 10th September 2019
Small modular reactors and the nuclear culture wars
Aaron Patrick, senior correspondent with the Australian Financial Review (AFR), is the latest journalist to enter the nuclear culture wars with some propaganda that’s indistinguishable from that served up in the Murdoch tabloids.
By Dr Jim Green
Renew Economy, 28th August 2019