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Articles from ncg members. For news articles before 2014, see the news archive.
Sea level rise threatens UK nuclear reactor plans
Report on Paper by Nick Scarr.
By Paul Brown
Climate News Network, 28th April 2020
Westminster bid to re-launch toxic plutonium reactors
The UK government is trying to resurrect plutonium-powered reactors despite abandoning a multi-billion bid to make them work in Scotland. Quoting Dr David Lowry and Pete Roche.
The Ferret, 26th April 2020
INRAG Working Paper on Nuclear Safety and Security during a Pandemic
International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group
24th April 2020
Sizewell C – The environment, coastal morphology and climate change – a 2020 perspective
By Nick Scarr, Consultant Engineer
23rd April 2020
Sizewell C not needed
Letter on the Government’s continued false assertions about the need to provide for increased electricity demand.
By Pete Roche
East Anglian Daily Times, 21st April 2020
UK gas plans a carbon-free future with hydrogen
Committed to a carbon-free future by 2050, the UK gas industry is to switch to green hydrogen and biogas.
By Paul Brown
Climate News Network, 20th April 2020
“The wrong reactor at the wrong time”: inside the UAE’s Barakah nuclear plant
The UAE has announced that the first reactor of its under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online within “a few months”. The country’s first nuclear plant could address a key energy need in the region, but questions remain as to its usefulness and safety in a geopolitically tense environment. Quoting Dr Paul Dorfman.
Power Technology, 17th April 2020
We spend billions on nuclear weapons. Let’s fund the NHS instead
Letter on “theft from the NHS”.
By Bruce Kent
The Guardian, 10th April 2020