How to make the most of this website

This site is designed to provide useful information for everyone from committed anti-nuclear campaigners to people who just want to dip in occasionally. Here are a few pointers to help you find what you’re looking for a little more quickly.

News

Nuclear and related news is reported at three different levels of frequency.

(1) Daily nuclear news
You can sign up to have this sent direct to your e-mail box. The news goes back to May 2006, so if you know the date of the article you’re looking for, scroll to the bottom of the page. Otherwise the search facility should be able to help you find that elusive news clipping.

(2) Monthly NuClear News - a free monthly newsletter, which started in December 2008, designed to keep climate campaigners informed about nuclear developments, and anti-nuclear campaigners about climate issues. Its focus is on showing how new reactors will make the climate change problem worse. Request an email alert when the next issue appears on the website.

An index for all issues of NuClear News is available.

For older news, try the similar Energy Review Updates which were published from March 2006 to October 2007.

(3) Quarterly Safe Energy Journal
A new design from June 2009 to keep you up to speed with the Government’s so-called ‘facilitative actions’ for new reactors, and the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely process. The shaded boxes at the beginning of each subject are will remind what has already happened.

Request an alert when the next issue appears on the website.

News in Depth
There will also be appearing from time-to-time a series of more in depth articles about particular important topics. As elsewhere on the site, these articles will be referenced and each reference will, wherever possible, give you a link to the actual report cited.

Reports and Briefings

Reports include longer original articles that you are unlikely to find anywhere else, such as the work by Hugh Richards of the Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance (WANA) on the problems associated with managing the spent nuclear waste fuel from proposed new reactors.

Briefings – shorter, well referenced, articles with a focus on a particular topic with links to other reports and websites for more in depth reading. We say short, but remember this is a specialist website, so we’re talking 6-8 pages. If you really want short, two-page briefings can be found elsewhere, for example:

(1) Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Nuclear Power is not a Solution to Climate Change

(2) Friends of the Earth Scotland and Association for the Conservation  of Energy, briefing on Energy.

After you’ve clicked on “Reports and Briefings” a sub-menu with three more items will appear. It’s worth looking at the Briefings from 2006/7 which cover a much broader range of subject areas from uranium mining and nuclear terrorism to decentralised energy. Just bear in mind that because the information is three years old some of it will be out of date. There are plenty of clickable links for you to check for more up-to-date information, but don’t be put off if a link doesn’t work.

Web Links – a tip

Obviously we cannot possibly keep track of every change that is made to every website, but by either going to the home page of the website in question or using google you will find that most of the reports are still available somewhere.

For any broken links on our web pages (rather than embedded in PDFs) you can report any broken links to us.

We are in the process of updating many of these briefings so watch out for later editions in 2009/10.

View on the Ground

This section includes news from the proposed sites for new reactors – with a page on each and links to local campaign groups. The page for Cumbria covers three reactors sites (Braystones, Kirksanton and Sellafield) and proposals for a deep geological disposal facility.

This section also has articles on two of the most advanced ‘facilitative actions’ along with responses to consultations from a range of groups: the Strategic Siting Assessment and the Justification process.

Articles and Comment

This section includes editorial and comment pieces, but also reprints some of the classic articles from the old Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace (SCRAM) Safe Energy Journal. Perhaps the article most talked about is the “World warms to nuclear power” by Dr Nigel Mortimer from Dec 1989/Jan 1990. Mortimer opened up the debate about nuclear power and climate change, subsequently followed up by Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen by looking at the carbon emissions caused by uranium mining.

Books

Here we recommend some books you might want to buy. No2nuclearpower gets a commission if you buy them from Amazon through our website. But you can help us out too by doing all of your Amazon shopping through our website. So the next time you want to buy a DVD, start off by clicking on one of the books – you can cancel it later if you really must.

There are a few reviews of the best books, designed to give you some of the best arguments from the book.

Online Resources

Links to other useful websites.