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Former heads of US, German, French nuclear regulation and Secretary to UK government radiation protection committee: ‘Nuclear is just not part of any feasible strategy that could counter climate change.’
6 January 2022
Communiqué – Statement Dr. Greg Jaczko, former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Prof. Wolfgang Renneberg, former Head of the Reactor Safety, Radiation Protection and Nuclear Waste, Federal Environment Ministry, Germany. Dr. Bernard Laponche, former Director General, French Agency for Energy Management, former Advisor to French Minister of Environment, … [Continue Reading]
Europe’s ‘science-based’ Sustainable Finance Taxonomy is politicised to include nuclear power
The Science-based case for excluding Nuclear Fission Technologies from the EU Taxonomy One of the most influential policy initiatives of the European Commission in the past years has been the “EU Taxonomy”, essentially a shopping list of investments that may be considered environmentally sustainable across six environmental objectives. To be … [Continue Reading]
Nuclear Power’s Economic Crisis and its Implications for Australia
9 December 2021
December 2021 report by Friends of the Earth Australia, ‘Nuclear Power’s Economic Crisis and its Implications for Australia’. The full report is available as a PDF. The introduction (minus references and footnotes) is copied below. INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY Despite the abundance of evidence that nuclear power is economically uncompetitive compared … [Continue Reading]
COP26’s Nuclear Sidebar
16 November 2021
By Jonathon Porritt The fact that COP26 was crawling with huge numbers of delegates from Big Oil and Gas got a lot of attention from the media. Less attention was paid to the large number of pro-nuclear delegates parasitically inserting themselves into as many events as they could engineer access … [Continue Reading]
Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links
11 November 2021
By Andy Stirling and Phil Johnstone Under the AUKUS agreement, the United States and the United Kingdom plan to transfer nuclear submarine technologies to Australia. One international security scholar characterized the deal as “a terrible decision for the nonproliferation regime,” noting grave concerns for peace and security worldwide. Others have … [Continue Reading]
Questions remain over the UK’s nuclear power plans
2 November 2021
No other country taking part in Cop26 is relying on multiple new reactors to get to net zero by 2050 In 2007, Vincent de Rivaz, the then EDF chief executive, said Britain would be “cooking our Christmas turkeys” with electricity from Hinkley Point C nuclear station by 2017. Instead the … [Continue Reading]
Organised crime goes nuclear
11 October 2021
Fraud, counterfeiting, bribery, corruption, sabotage, theft, and other criminal activities are rife in global nuclear industry. “As prime minister of Japan at the time of the [Fukushima] disaster, I now believe that the time has come for Japan and the world to end its reliance on nuclear power,” Naoto Kan … [Continue Reading]
30 September 2021
As we head towards COP26, CND’s scientific adviser, Dr Ian Fairlie, addresses the claims that new forms of nuclear power production can be part of the solution to the climate emergency. In recent months, the outpouring of pro-nuclear media stories and newspaper articles has been incessant and increasing in the … [Continue Reading]
No room for nuclear
18 July 2021
by Dave Elliott As noted in an article in Regional Life, a local conservation e-magazine linked to a local anti nuclear group, the flat landscape of the Dengie peninsula in Essex is punctuated by a line of tall wind turbines, slowly turning and the massive grey-blue hulk of the former … [Continue Reading]