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.
See also Cities for a Nuclear Free Europe.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace International Nuclear Blog
Friends of the Earth
FoE England Wales & Northern Ireland: Five Need to Know Facts About Nuclear
Stop Nuclear Power Network
Stop Nuclear Power Network (formerly Nuclear People Power) a UK-based non-hierarchical grassroots network campaigning and taking nonviolent action against nuclear power.
CORE
Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment. Everything you need to know about what’s going on at Sellafield.
KARE
Kent Against A Radioactive Environment.
Radiation Free Lakeland
Campaigning to stop radioactive contamination of the Lake District.
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
Dedicated to the removal of nuclear reactors from the Bristol Channel and the Severn Estuary.
Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy
Campaigning against new reactors at Oldbury in Gloucestershire.
Bradwell for Renewable Energy
Heysham Anti-Nuclear Alliance (HANA)
Heysham Anti-Nuclear Alliance (HANA) is a working group for organisations and individuals opposed to the construction of new nuclear power stations in the UK.
Welsh Anti Nuclear Alliance
Campaigning against nuclear power and nuclear weapons in Wales.
Information
Nuclear Spin
The Nuclear Spin website is designed to help people find out more about the key pro-nuclear advocates in the UK.
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
Large Associates
Nuclear Engineering Consultancy. Clients have included Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the Sustainable Development Commission, Stop Hinkley Expansion. Many of their reports available on the website.
Ecologist Magazine
Articles on a range of environmental topics including nuclear power and climate change.
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.
Green Futures
Green Futures Magazine – the sustainable solutions magazine published by Forum for the Future.
nuclearconsult.com
Nuclearconsult.com aims to provide clear and independent information and analysis of the range of nuclear new build issues.
nonuclear4me.org
Promotes switching from pro-nuclear electricity suppliers.
ElectricityInfo.org
Shows how much nuclear power there is in each UK supplier’s fuel mix.
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.
Facts on nuclear energy
facts-on-nuclear-energy.info, the website which does what it says on the tin.
Bellona
A brilliant site from this Norwegian environment group. Download their report “Sellafield – the fight continues”.
Antinuclear
An Australian website which looks at international news and makes the connections between Australian and the rest of the world.
Proliferation
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).
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.
Nuclear Waste
Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
Consultations on how to manage the UK’s Radioactive Waste.
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.
FoE Nirex Inquiry archive files
From the 1995/96 public inquiry into proposals by Nirex to build a Rock Characterisation Facility at Sellafield, the FoE Nirex Inquiry archive is now available as PDF files.
Prof David Smythe
Solway Plain Against Nuclear Dump (SPAND)
A group opposed to the area being used for an underground repository for high level nuclear waste.
Nuclear Industry
British Nuclear Industry
British Energy, the UK’s Privatised Nuclear Utility
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Government Bodies
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
Alternatives
Energy efficiency
The Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) campaigns for increased investment in all appropriate energy saving measures. ACE merged with the Association for Decentralised Energy in 2019.
The Energy Saving Trust (EST) is funded by the Government and private sector to achieve the sustainable and efficient use of energy at home, in business and in the public sector.
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.
Other
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