The Carbon Brief Profile: Brazil
In the first of a new series explaining how key emitters are positioned to tackle climate change, Carbon Brief sets out Brazil’s key policy developments,…
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Turkey
In the second article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Turkey’s rising emissions and its…
The Carbon Brief Profile: Japan
In the third article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Japan’s gradually falling emissions…
The trouble with Wylfa’s reactor
Projects using this reactor type have suffered setbacks and slowdowns around the world Hitachi is seeking billions of pounds from the British government to help build…
Nuclear power is failing worldwide, it’s time for Hammond to back away
It must be hard being a civil servant. Think about the gyrations they must perform trying to justify the UK nuclear power programme. They cannot…
Community Power Offers Fukushima a Brighter, Cleaner Future
In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami ravaged the Fukushima prefecture, in the Tohoku region of Japan’s main island of Honshu. The natural…
How much fuel does it take to power the world?
It’s currently billions of tonnes of fossil fuels every year. With new (or existing!) technologies, we could literally change the world. “In terms of weapons, the…
Small reactors ‘might be a game-changer’ for Europe
The political climate for nuclear energy is “not very positive” in Europe, admits William D. Magwood, and the industry is currently shifting towards Russia and…
Huge Milestone: Renewables Now Provide More Electricity Than Nuclear Power
The latest issue of the U.S. Energy Information’s “Electric Power Monthly” (with data through April 30) reveals that—for the first time since the beginning of…
Chemistry research breakthrough that could improve nuclear waste recycling technologies
Researchers from The University of Manchester have taken a major step forward by describing the quantitative modelling of the electronic structure of a family of…
Nuclear Power is not “Green Energy”: it is a fount of atomic waste
Starting in 1971, I became a card-carrying member of the “nuclear priesthood.” I began as a licensed nuclear reactor operator and progressed through the industry…
Six years after Fukushima, much of Japan has lost faith in nuclear power
Tatsujiro Suzuki, Nagasaki University Six years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011, but Japan is still dealing with its impacts….
Europe should harmonise safety requirements for new nuclear build
The growing concern about climate change, as witnessed in Paris last year, has created the best opportunity for nuclear power in decades. New Nuclear Watch…