The UK Government continues to subsidise the building and operating of nuclear power plants despite the facts that: nuclear fission is the most expensive and dangerous way of generating electricity; the grade of uranium ore required by current nuclear power plants is fast becoming too expensive to mine; the authorities appear unable or uninterested in protecting industry workers and communities living near plants or mines from the deadly uranium radiation released by the processes; the toxic waste created by the process remains dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years; every nuclear plant is a potential nuclear disaster, whether because of human error, a natural accident (like Fukushima), or a terrorist action.

The nuclear industry promises two safer alternatives, cold fusion rather than hot fission and thorium-fuelled nuclear power rather than uranium-fuelled nuclear power, but neither is ready - still - to help bridge the gap between electricity generation principally from dirty fossil fuels and electricity generation principally from clean renewable sources, like solar, wind, hydro and tidal power.

Sample articles

Issues

Uranium-fuelled nuclear power will not significantly reduce carbon emissions

Uranium-fuelled nuclear power is a dead duck

Dwindling high-grade uranium supply rules out nuclear future

Nuclear plants ideal targets for terrorists

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News

Breast cancer clusters in Burnham near Hinckley Point

Burnham-on-Sea - radioactive mud kills babies

Leukaemia - new evidence of Sellafield danger

Sellafield major suspect of birth defects and cancer on Irish coast

Sellafield cancer clusters cover up exposed

Sellafield pigeons glow in the dark

Is Plymouth the new Sellafield?

Thames Valley leukaemia clusters

Radioactive roads and houses in Harwell

Wales goes radioactive

Welsh breast cancer - is nuclear fallout the real cause?

CSA refuses to publish Scottish child leukaemia figures
- is there a nuclear connection?

The fallout from Fukushima

Hounslow and Hillingdon's evil wind

England and Wales waste incinerators that burn radioactive waste

Global warming may drown nuclear power

Six hot spots to avoid - radon may kill 19,000 a year

Some smoke detectors radioactive

Euratom - radioactive metals recycled into food cans

Uranium mining contaminates mining communities

Infant mortality rates fell when nuclear reactors closed down

Irradiated mail sickened US postal workers