Climate Chaos

Building New Reactors Damages Attempts to Tackle Climate Change

Posted Tue, 30/06/2009 - 12:00am by admin

No 2 Nuclear Power briefing, June 2009

Jurgen Trittin – Former German Federal Minister for the Environment – describes calls for more nuclear power to tackle the problem of climate change as “fighting one risk with an even bigger one”. And Environment Ministers from Ireland, Norway, Iceland and Austria agree saying the current debate about the use of nuclear energy as a solution to climate change is downplaying the environmental, waste, proliferation, nuclear liability and safety issues.

Anti-nuclear presence on London Climate Change March

Posted Sun, 07/12/2008 - 1:00am by admin

Here are some images from the UK National Climate Change March, organised by Campaign Against Climate Change, which took place in London on Saturday 6 December 2008. This was part of a global day of action on climate change, with demonstrations taking place in cities all around the world.

Valuing the greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power: A critical survey

Posted Mon, 02/06/2008 - 12:00am by admin

This article screens 103 lifecycle studies of greenhouse gas-equivalent emissions for nuclear power plants to identify a subset of the most current, original, and transparent studies.

The Role of Nuclear Power in a Low Carbon Economy

Posted Sun, 05/03/2006 - 1:00am by admin

Prepared as the SDC's input to the UK Government's 2006 Energy Review, The role of nuclear power in a low carbon economy draws together the most comprehensive evidence base available to find that there is no justification for bringing forward a new nuclear programme at the present time.