Report and briefings

Reports and briefings

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Reports

Too Hot to Handle: the Truth about High Burn-up Spent Fuel, by Hugh Richards, April 2008
The high burn up fuel proposed for new reactors uses more enriched uranium, and leaves it in the reactor for longer. This gets more output from the fuel, but increases the dangers of radioactive releases as the fuel cladding gets thinner. This increased danger persists throughout its storage and disposal.

Burying the Truth, by Hugh Richards, March 2008
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) were established to help deal with existing radioactive waste and were able to build a degree of public trust on the basis that they were addressing a finite problem that concerns all of us. But now the Government’s push for new nuclear power stations is putting all that hard work in jeopardy by forcing both organisations to include the huge additional amounts of highly radioactive spent fuel from a new nuclear programme.

Is nuclear power a solution to climate change? by Pete Roche, April 2005 [pdf, 350KB]

See Nuclear Free Local Authorities New Nuclear Monitor briefings, in particular:

• New Nuclear Monitor No.9, March 2006 "Responding to Our Energy Challenge" [pdf, 375KB]

• New Nuclear Monitor No.8, May 2005, “Nuclear Power is Not the Solution to Climate Change” [pdf, 476KB]

Recent Briefings

No2NuclearPower 2008 briefings

The Civil Nuclear Power Revival and Nuclear Proliferation, May 2008

No2NuclearPower 2007 briefing series

Opportunity Costs of Nuclear Power, January 2007

Civil Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, January 2007

Nuclear Waste – A global problem with only one answer: Stop producing it!, January 2007

Nuclear Subsidies – how the market is rigged in favour of dangerous nuclear electricity, January 2007