Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt
James Dyke, University of Southampton By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of…
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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…
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…
5 years after Fukushima, nuclear industry alive and well
Five years after the world’s second-worst nuclear disaster in Japan, the nuclear power industry is far from dead. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan on…
Nuclear Is Still the Lowest Cost Option
Nuclear costs aren’t on the rise globally as has been widely thought, says a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Nuclear Energy…
Sendai nuclear plant restarted
A nuclear reactor has been restarted in Japan for the first time in nearly 2 years. The No.1 reactor at the Sendai nuclear plant in…
Wind Power Beats Nuclear Again in China
China, the country that is building more nuclear reactors than any other, continued to get more electricity from the wind than from nuclear power plants…
Nuclear Power Needs to Double to Meet Warming Goal
The International Energy Agency and the Nuclear Energy Agency suggest in a report released Thursday that nuclear will have such a significant role to play…
Chernobyl: Containing the world’s worst nuclear accident
Rising above the scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident is the spectacular sight of the largest moveable structure ever created on land. The complex…
Russian Audit Chamber cites ballooning budgets in domestic nuke projects
A report by the Russian Duma’s independent Audit Chamber seen by Bellona revealed that delayed payments for construction costs at a host of new nuclear…