Friday
8th August
2008
Online resources
| UK & Ireland national and local groups | ||||
Nuclear Free Local Authorities Information to assist local authorities campaigning against nuclear power and nuclear werapons. See in particular the NFLA’s briefings called New Nuclear Monitor. Greenpeace Greenpeace UK Nuclear Campaign Greenpeace UK’s Nuclear Fact File Greenpeace International's nuclear campaign Friends of the Earth FoE England Wales & Northern Ireland Climate & Energy Campaign. News from South Gloucestershire Friends of the Earth – the area around Oldbury and Berkeley Nuclear power stations. No New Nukes! Opposing construction of new nuclear power stations in the UK |
New Nuclear Power No Thanks UK campaigning and information website STAD Stop THORP Alliance Dundalk. An excellent page for keeping up with the news. KARE Kent Against A Radioactive Environment. One of the best anti-nuclear sites in the UK. CORE Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment. Everything you need to know about what’s going on at Sellafield. Shut Down Sizewell Campaign The Shut Down Sizewell Campaign based in Suffolk campaigning to close the old Magnox station and the newer PWR. Stop Hinkley & Shut Oldbury Dedicated to the removal of nuclear reactors from the Bristol Channel and the Severn Estuary. |
Nuclear Free Future An anti-nuclear campaign group based in Hartlepool, N.E England Bradwell for Renewable Energy everyone Scotland’s Environment Groups campaigning together on climate change. N-Base Nuclear Information Service based in Shetland – with a particular focus on Dounreay. WANA Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance Newsletter. Keep Wales Nuclear Free no2nukes.com |
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| Information | Alternatives | Proliferation | ||
Nuclear Spin The Nuclear Spin website is designed to help people find out more about the key pro-nuclear advocates in the UK. Facts on nuclear energy facts-on-nuclear-energy.info, the website which does what it says on the tin. Walt Patterson On Energy Walt Patterson’s independent insight, comment, analysis and polemic on nuclear power, fossil fuel, renewables, electricity and energy systems RobEdwards.info Environmental news and information from the Sunday Herald’s environment editor Jackson Consulting Independent Nuclear Consultants. A useful place to find alternative ideas on various consultations going on currently. Click on Free Reports. The site has a report search function and useful links. Ecologist Magazine Articles on a range of environmental topics including nuclear power and climate change. Safe Energy eJournal Safe Energy eJournal back issues WISE World Information Service on Energy WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor A unique international newsletter produced 20 times a
year giving an anti-nuclear perspective on what is happening
in the nuclear power
industry and the resistance against it, concentrating on grassroots movements.
Anyone who wants to stand up against the Bellona A brilliant site from this Norwegian environment group. Download their report “Sellafield – the fight continues”. nuclearconsult.com Nuclearconsult.com aims to provide clear and independent information and analysis of the nuclear part of the Energy Review public consultation. Green Futures Green Futures Magazine - the sustainable solutions magazine published by Forum for the Future. nonuclear4me.org Promotes switching from pro-nuclear electricity suppliers. Peak Oil Website by John Busby. Includes an overview of nuclear power and global warming Olkiluoto.info An excellent dedicated web-site for a useful and updated summary of all the scandals surrounding the new Finnish reactor. |
Energy efficiency The Association
for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) campaigns for increased
investment in all appropriate energy saving measures. UK renewable energy British Wind Energy Association Centre for Alternative Technology wewantawindfarm.org – set up to counter the campaigns against windfarms in Essex. EUROSOLAR – The European Association for Renewable Energy Switch to green electricity at Green Electricity Marketplace Before switching supplier, check what electricity you'll actually get at electricityinfo.org. Microgeneration MicrogenScotland.org.uk promotes small-scale renewable energy, combined heat and power and decentralised energy in Scotland and the UK. Provides weekly Micro Power News, and updates from Holyrood and Westminster. |
CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (London) Nuclear Control Institute The Nuclear Control Institute (Washington) – an excellent site on nuclear proliferation IPPNW International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War See in particular: Re-thinking Nuclear Energy and Democracy after September 11th 2001 CNIC (Japan) The Citizens Nuclear Information Centre (Japan) has added new information to its web site regarding the Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing facility, which is under construction in Japan and nuclear proliferation; and about Japan and nuclear proliferation Non-proliferation treaty Oxford Research Group and the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) worked together on a series of briefings on the 2005 Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference will strengthen both the NPT and the State Parties' commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Beyond Nuclear A US website highlighting the links between nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. It aims to dispel nuclear myths, and to lay out pathways to a world without nuclear reactors and without nuclear weapons. The group also has a blog. |
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| Nuclear Waste | Nuclear Industry | Government Bodies | ||
Committee on Radioactive Waste Management Consultations on how to manage the UK’s Radioactive Waste. NIREX NIREX – set up in the early 1980s by the nuclear industry, to examine deep geological disposal of radioactive waste. It is now in the process of being made independent of the industry. The Virtual Repository The Virtual Repository provides details of radwaste activities in 20 countries, latest news, etc Waste Link A US guide to radioactive waste related material on the internet. The primary purpose of this site is to provide a reference source for radioactive waste management professionals. |
British Nuclear Industry British Energy, the UK’s Privatised Nuclear Utility Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Pro-nuclear Trade Union campaign for new nuclear reactors at Chapelcross, Dumfriesshire and Sellafield. |
Dept of Trade & Industry – Managing the Nuclear Legacy Site. Dept Environment Food & Rural Affairs; Radioactivity Section Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee Food Standards Agency – reports on Radioactivity in Food and the Environment Environment Agency (England & Wales) Environment Agency site for consultations, eg, for radioactive discharge authorisations |
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Free campaign planning website This website is relevant to: environment, conservation, human rights, consumer issues, politics, community concerns, health, gender issues, media studies, journalism, social marketing, mass media, new media, communication strategies, marketing, contagion of ideas, causation of change. |
CampaigningOnline CampaigningOnline.com can add affordable campaigning features to your website for email lobbying, petitions, polls, etc. |
Smiling Sun Get those smiling sun stickers and badges in the language of your choice from WISE. And for a UK supplier of organic fair trade smiling sun T-shirts, visit Fairganic.
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