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Welcome
Our reasons for setting up this site are given in our launch editorial and the article “Nuclear Power? No thanks!”
With Gordon Brown having given his blessing to a new generation of nuclear power stations we urgently need the support of individuals to help keep this website going, with more frequent updates, and more briefings for campaigners. Read More ...
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Three Mile Island 30th Anniversary 28th March 2009
Thirty years ago, Americans stood in shock watching unfold what had been officially deemed by federal officials as "incredible" — a major accident at a nuclear power reactor.
Current Actions
WWF’s Earth Hour 2009
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News
Daily News Roundup
A daily digest of nuclear news.
NuClear News
NuClear News is a free monthly newsletter designed to keep climate campaigners informed about nuclear developments in the UK, and anti-nuclear campaigners about climate issues.
Safe Energy No 46, June 2009
The latest issue of the e-Journal >>
Comment
New Nuclear at Bradwell is not Inevitable
Andrew Blowers argues that Bradwell is not a suitable site for a new nuclear power station.
Information
French EPR – an absolute disaster
Greenpeace has condemned French President Nicolas Sarkozy's announcement of plans to build a second European Pressurised nuclear Reactor (EPR) in France: “Only a blind man could fail to see that the EPR has been an absolute disaster. Sarkozy's announcement is nothing short of lunacy. He should be cancelling the construction of France's current EPR, not ordering a new one.”
The Civil Nuclear Power Revival and Nuclear Proliferation
Our latest briefing looks at the nuclear weapons proliferation risks of a revival in civil nuclear power.
Wise up to nuclear folly
A classic article by Green Guru Amory Lovins from Green Futures, March 2006, has made it onto the magazine’s re-vamped website. Investing in nuclear power, says Lovins, is the worst thing we can do for climate change. Nuclear is a once-significant but now dying industry already fading from the marketplace, overtaken and humbled by swifter rivals. Efforts to ‘revive’ this moribund technology will only waste time and money.
Green Futures 8th Match 2006 >>
The 1957 Windscale Fire
Some of the personal testimonies from people involved in the fire at Windscale, Sellafield, in 1957 and some statistics on estimates of the health impact of the fire. The plume of radioactive contamination spread across England into Holland and Germany and also across into Ireland. Compiled by Jean McSorley.
The Convenient Solution
Greenpeace has just launched a new film about nuclear power and climate change, called The Convenient Solution. We all know that, to stop climate change, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. The Government says we need nuclear power to do this. This new film explains why nuclear power can’t stop climate change – and lays down a better, cheaper, more convenient solution.
Nuclear is not the answer to climate change
There is one risk associated with new reactors which is perhaps most worrying of all, writes Pete Roche, the risk of diverting attention and resources from the urgent programmes which must be implemented in order to effectively tackle climate change – renewable energy and energy efficiency. If attention, political effort and resources are diverted to a new nuclear programme, past experience suggests that problems and delays will mean that by 2025 carbon emissions are still rising and too much time has been wasted to start implementing alternative strategies.
Intelligent Energy Futures
There is a growing number of reports showing how it is
possible to make the deep cuts in CO2 emissions that are needed using conservation
of energy and renewable sources of energy, and without nuclear power. (See
a
list of some of them with a summary of each and a link for downloading.)
The latest of these is a
new report just out called "Tackling
Climate Change in the U.S" by the American Solar Energy Society.
Books
We have selected a range of books which we think may be of
interest to visitors to this site.
You can browse by category and get further
information and make purchases on the Amazon website.
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What if Chernobyl happened here?
We have produced a dynamic map to show the possible effects of a major accident at a UK nuclear power station. The map shows the fallout from Chernobyl applied to each of the UK's nuclear power stations.
Thanks to Keep Wales Nuclear Free for the original artwork.
And you can view an animation of the actual radioactive plume produced by the French Government's IRSN.
They're Back:
Nuclear Power? No Thanks T-shirts
Friends of the Earth, in co-operation with WISE (World Information Service on Energy), has reprinted the famous “Nuclear Power? No Thanks” logo on T-shirts made of organic, fairly-traded cotton to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
It is quick and easy to order online. There are also badges and stickers with the logo. Every order supports Friends of the Earth and WISE campaigns.
Also available from Fairganic.
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