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The poor pay for the grim legacy of uranium mining
Uranium mining costs humans dearly. The nuclear industry prefers not to discuss the price paid by miners and their families.
By Paul Brown
Climate News Network, 31st July 2020
Readers Respond: Michael Shellenberger and Apocalypse Never
On nuclear requiring little land and emitting no CO2.
By Dr David Lowry
Drilled News, 31st July 2020
Why is the Gulf going nuclear? | Start Here
The UAE is pushing ahead with its nuclear power plant. But is it safe for the region? Featuring Dr Paul Dorfman.
Al Jazeera, 26th July 2020
‘The next Huawei’: Can Sizewell C be built without the Chinese?
With UK-China tensions on a knife edge, nuclear power is becoming the next flashpoint. Is Sizewell C is possible without Chinese cash? Quoting Dr Paul Dorfman.
East Anglian Daily Times, 25th July 2020
Nuclear energy and the industry surrounding it ‘is a complete scam’
That’s the bold claim from Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, who told Energy Live News that the UK ‘has been one of the most incompetent countries in developing nuclear infrastructure’.
Energy Live, 24th July 2020
Nuclear Gulf: Is Saudi Arabia pushing itself into a nuclear trap?
MBS is prepared to pursue nuclear weapons if Iran gets them. But could he end up making the kingdom a nuclear pawn? Quoting Dr Paul Dorfman.
Al Jazeera, 21st July 2020
Powerful backers support a UK nuclear future
Insulating homes and installing renewable energy are the cheapest answers to climate change. Yet powerful backers urge a UK nuclear future.
By Paul Brown
Climate News Network, 15th July 2020
The Politics of Uncertainty – Challenges of Transformation
Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion.
Edited by Prof Ian Scoones and Prof Andy Stirling
Routledge, 14th July 2020