Friday
8th August
2008
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
Nuclear Reactor Safety, January 2007
Decentralised Energy – Power for the 21st Century, January 2007
Uranium Supply and Mining, January 2007
Climate solutions – nuclear vs sustainable pathways, January 2007
Nuclear Power and Security Threats, January 2007
No2NuclearPower Questions & Answers
Decentralised Energy, February 2007
Nuclear Economics, February 2007
Nuclear Proliferation, February 2007
Nuclear Safety, February 2007
Nuclear Security, February 2007
Nuclear Waste, February 2007
Uranium, February 2007