London
Londoners are becoming more concerned about the dangers of climate change – but most don’t believe nuclear power is the answer.
The Londoner July 2006
It’s crazy to consider building new reactors – they are expensive and dangerous, says, Professor Barnham, emeritus professor in physics at Imperial College, at the University of London, who has spent the last 30 years developing solar power technology. And he says he is deeply concerned that nuclear power has come back on the national agenda and that a new generation of nuclear power stations may be built in Britain.
The Londoner July 2006
New Nukes
BRITISH Energy claims that new nuclear power stations could be economic without direct government subsidies. “I don’t believe that nuclear power requires any subsidy to make it viable in the marketplace,” it said yesterday. Greenpeace, on the other hand, is convinced that nuclear is economically unfeasible without financial help from the State.
Times 21st June 2006
Iran
Iran is not considering a halt to its nuclear fuel programme even after any negotiations with major powers, a senior Iranian official said on Friday. The Iranian Embassy in Vienna said Tehran’s deputy nuclear negotiator had been misquoted in a German translation of a speech he gave on Thursday that raised the possibility of Iran stopping uranium enrichment as a result of negotiations.
Reuters 23rd June 2006
Nuclear Weapons
Former Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson indicated that he believes Tony Blair should give MPs a vote on whether Britain’s Trident nuclear missiles ought to be replaced.
Guardian website 23rd June 2006
Letter from David Lowry: What is it about nuclear policy that seems to make it antithetical to democratic decision-making? Gordon Brown’s pledge to replace Trident with another nuclear WMD system follows soon after his announcement in The Times (“Business leaders must now make positive case for globalisation”) that he was following the Prime Minister in supporting new nuclear power plants.
Times 24th June 2006
The Mayor of Stroud is to meet the mayor of Hiroshima. Local Green Party councillor Kevin Cranston will meet Dr Akiba, who is also president of International Mayors for Peace, at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
Gloucestershire Citizen 23rd June 2006
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown was yesterday hit by a left-wing backlash after saying he wanted to secure “for the long term” Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent.
Daily Post 23rd June 2006
Proliferation
AT CHAPELCROSS, near Dumfries, the British Nuclear Group is in the process of decommissioning the four nuclear reactors that have operated on the site since the Fifties. The BNG’s website disingenuously refers to Chapelcross as “Scotland’s first commercial nuclear power station”. In fact, it was a military establishment.
Scotsman 24th June 2006
HANS Blix, the former UN chief weapons inspector, yesterday warned that North Korea represented the most urgent threat to global nuclear security. He also called on the United States to show more patience with Iran.
Scotsman 24th June 2006
