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Articles from ncg members. For news articles before 2014, see the news archive.
On the Frontline of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Workers and Children
Radiation risks and human rights violations.
By Shaun Burnie and Kazue Suzuki
Greenpeace, March 2019
Dr Paul Dorfman, Presentation: Risks of Ageing Nuclear Plant in UK and France
Mounting Nuclear Risks: It’s high time to phase out
7.3.19 European Parliament, Brussels
7th March 2019
EU Parliament Meeting on Ageing Nuclear Plant
Photos from EU Parliament Meeting on Ageing Nuclear Plant, Brussels, 7.3.19. Speakers include: Rudi Anschober, Rebecca Harms, Nikolaus Mueller and Paul Dorfman.
© European Union 2019 – EP / Vincent VAN DOORNICK
European Parliament, 7th March 2019
Mounting Nuclear Risks – it’s high time to phase out
7 March 2019, 14h00 – 16h00
European Parliament, Room A5E1, Brussels
Including a presentation from Dr Paul Dorfman
7th March 2019
nuClear News No.114
The January/February 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, February 2019
Energy saving – and use – without end
Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute, US, says the cost of energy efficiency will fall — not rise — with wider use if we adopt integrated system design.
By Prof David Elliott
Physics World, 27th February 2019
Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion
The chapter argues that radiophobia operates by trivializing, feminizing, and hystericizing fears of ionizing radiation, while offering as an antidote rationalized conceptions of radiation health effects that are highly politicized and contested.
By Prof Majia Nadessan
Transforming Contagion
The life ahead is electric
It’s full steam ahead for renewables in the DNV-GL consultancy’s latest Energy Transitions Outlook.
By Prof David Elliott
Physics World, 20th February 2019